Holding

Fraying fronds

Unravelling strands

Unthreading

untwisting

Grey-blonding

unknotting

Unseen strength

of bonding

Straining skeins,

Disentwining, eroding

Viscerally revealing

The power

of holding.

December 2020

Photo description: A knot holds together two pieces of taut rope, stretched diagonally above a patch of river sand. The ropes are weatherworn. Their ends have come undone so that the knot is turning into a tangle of bleached thread