Made for the River Wye Valley festival 2020

Part Lecture, part poem with music

Rhys Trimble 2020

Tribut(ary)e to the River Wye

no one ever steps in the same river twice, for it's not the same river and they are not the person – from hericlitus

Right Sided Tributaries                        

 [1]blaidd / [2]trothy

microplastic she kept

to the waterall and its form/foam                 

bunnymen incut                    

pilling doleful singer

thicket & pallour

morae indine predictable      

freaklux lexis slap

haul / monnow                        

image wild broke measure                

snip construct chattel

symbology prepossess           

& looping pedalo       

wundercamer houring

your face: an empty house                

telyn / dulas brook                  

dy mebyd banality exhort      

ordinarity (your body)                       

façade server (seed

museum poesis speak            

harp (persona (trelick

tryfan three stones moving   

upkiss & wooden       

inaesthetic parade                             

problemate choreography                             

pren / arrow                            

dénouement road river                     

monophonic) phasing                                    

disney time & synthetic                     

heightenedness fractal          

disjoint smash two discourses           

afon / llynfi                             

shebang exploratory                          

hyperfrictive celluloidal

clock corralled dep(art)         

rave interpunkt b(ark)           

uniformity of witchcraft

play ground & theramin        

femina ludus cargo                            

cult fibre times                       

coeden / ennig            

bullet objet street                              

candy synopses split              

iteration timbres tombér

unsensate moribund

spatiality speculum

her running for me—

lleuad / duhonw                 

her runnery articulate                       

windhover shanti shanti        

documentary of meadows

wading memorial sun cycle   

dodecahedrical in water                    

things:secular baptism                                   

amser / irfon               

molecular gerund [looked upon        

slightly voodoo ovectivize                             

hash telescopic & reverent

fall away the song

endures [the smell of

amethyst crib [ with regards                         

even more beautiful than ice                                                

swan territoriality and fledge                                    

on mist /escley brook /olchon brook/ monnow / mono stereoscopic vision

Left Sided Tributaries

from the definition of water, university dictionary:

gwlybwr sy’n disgyn gan lifo a chronni yn afonydd, nentydd, llynnoedd a moroedd, a tharddu o’r ddaear yn ffynhonnau; un o’r prif elfennau ym mhob peth byw ac yn ei ffurf buraf yn hylif tryloyw di-liw a di-sawr ac yn gyfansawdd o hydrogen ac ocsigen, h2o; fe dry gan wres yn ager a chan oerfel yn rhew; cronfa o ddŵr fel a geir mewn afon, lyn neu fôr; fel hylif neu sudd sy’n nawsio allan o gorff dyn neu greadur, e.e. dagrau, &c.; fel diod i dorri syched dyn ac anifail; fel gwlybwr i olchi ac ymolchi; fel trwyth wedi ei baratoi at ddibenion meddygol, &c.; diod wedi ei distyllu:

awyr / dore

i recorded vader refraction

a click slick and stair play is hair

electronic meshes that beat

fast egon wallpaper all i see creation is

good schön good regina

is not my heterochromia

a lyrical argument is a losing thing

futility is liquidity

dwr/ worm brook

c’mon now tack monnow

mop fair air & wye

am ddau ystlys dwfr dofn afon

afon firain a theg

holy llugwy:llu and flow

holy frome: tangnefedd

tir / escley brook

kenwater kenspeckle & knowing

ceffyl ceiniogog

arrow & row & furrow

ceffyl dwr yn rhuo

cynon brook cynan ail

                                                                                 aran                            elan

camddwr                              rhiwnan                     arban                         

seren / lugg

lighting rods llandogo &

ritual time (a thing

in medium rez

[punctus] hemistich

binaristic hasp & lock

gilwern: galar

dulas: indigo

llynfi aquifer

ennig: cysegr

claerddu: the clarityblack

aderyn / frome / triffrwd

triffrwd thrice confluent                                            aran

hirondelle hunt insects between left

and right tributaries

bachawy little eddied song

edw

duhonw

irfon

chwerfri

cammarch

gwetyn

gwy

  edw 

duhonw

irfon

chwerfri

cammarch

gwetyn

gwy

[1] The first names of every stanza are shamanic names I gave to participants in the River Wye festival planning meetings.

[2] The second names are tributaries with the exception of monnow, a river in its own right

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