Over in the deepest corner at Avoncroft, there is a medieval marvel.
Precursor to our grid-iron skyscrapers.
Penetrated by pegged timbers and held together by tension.
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Fallen on hard times, saved, moved and here now in its final resting place.
Some say a sterile act - to move and reconstruct - better to leave and decay.
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But such notions dissipate upon entry into draughty voids beyond the whiplashed door.
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Inside the minutes slip by as the light reveals and conceals the lives of our forebears
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Their loves, fears and needs reflected in the way they built and organised.
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With decanted light
through the ancient timbers along the wattle and daub -
The house resonates….
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And suddenly, because of such things
the people that once inhabited are alive again
and there’s a different century coursing through my veins…
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