Places which enchant are often liminal or riparian, as edges
and boundaries—debatable ground...

I dream of crossing the river, balancing on tipping points
shifting in their truculent bed; on stones, then, planted in
flumes of turbulent water draining into "a future we want
to avoid."

What we called Nature, the rawness of a thought, doesn’t
smooth things over and round out to the nearest decimal.
Gaia is not a mathematician, but a magician.
As one foot slides sideways, the other grips
the earth tighter.

 

 

 

Places which enchant:: P. Curry, Enchantment: Wonder in Modern Life. Edinburgh UK, 2019
tipping points: "Politicians, economists and even some natural scientists have tended to assume that tipping points1 in the Earth system — such as the loss of the Amazon rainforest or the West Antarctic ice sheet 7 are of low probability and little understood. Yet evidence is mounting that these events could be more likely than was thought, have high impacts and are interconnected across different biophysical systems, potentially committing the world to long-term irreversible changes." T.M. Lenton, et.al., "Climate Tipping Points—Too Risky to Bet Against." Nature, Vol 575, 28 November 2019.
a future: C. Hamilton, The Anthropocene and the Global Environmental Crisis. Oxon UK, 2015.