Sand Witches
Do you know much about
And deserts?
Do you know much about
Do you enjoy building
Perhaps you are
An arenophile.
What is your
Acquaintance with
Sand witches and
Process art?How do you usually
Acquaint yourself with
Wonderful witches?
Are you aware that
Sand is aWhat do you know about
John Montagu, 4th Earl of Sandwich
And the food named after him?
What do you know about
What have you discovered
About the Battle of Sandwich
Of 1217?
Do you know much about Sandwich
In Kent in England,
And Sandwich Bay nearby,
And the one in Canada?Do you know much about
Of Australia?
There is much to learn.
Perhaps you are
An expert on
What do you know about
The destruction of art?
What do you know about
What do you know about
Sandpainting in various cultures,
Including sand mandalas?
What do you know about
The destruction of lives
And livelihoods and ecosystems?What is your acquaintance with
Sandpipers, curlews and snipes?
What do you know
About snipers?
What do you know
About desert sand
What do you know aboutAnd other marine pollution
And acts of scuttling?
What do you know about
In the United States and
Do you know the Sandman?He may be found in a song
Or in an opera or
In your imagination.
What do you know about
And magic maps?
and sandpaintings of
Navajo yeii and
Indigenous Australian
What do you know about
Sand drawing and rangoli,
Kolams and marmotinto?
What do you
Want to knowAbout sand witches,
And why?
What do you know about
What have you observed
About sand sculptures
And sand festivals?
What do you know about
What do you know aboutWhat do you know about
Sandstorms and quicksand,
Sand mining and sand theft,
What do you know about
and hourglasses?What do you know about
Where have you drawnWhat do you understand about
To finance?
What do you know about
What do you know about
Perhaps you are
An expert onWhat do you know
About ostrich politics?
Sand witches respect science.
They respect respectfulness.
They respect well-informed
Kindness.
They are aware.
They care.
What do you know aboutWhat do you know about
Barchan dunes and
Desertification?
What do you know about
What do you know about
What do you know about
Dust devils, otherwise known
In Australia as willy-willies?
What do you know about
The composition of societies?What do you know about
The composition of soils?
Sand witches
Like all wonderful witches,
Do their best to learn
From history, science,
Art and philosophy.
They do not suffer
Fools or sleazeballs,
Regardless of their ancestry.What do you know about
Sandbags and storm surges?
What do you know about
What do you know about
The Great Sand Dunes
National Park and Preserve
In America?
What is your acquaintance
With Eucla in Australia?What do you know about
Rabbit plagues and
What do you know about
What do you know aboutPerhaps you are aware of
The Great Vanity of 1641.
Perhaps you know about
Hurricane Sandy of 2012.
Perhaps you know
Something aboutPerhaps you are
Familiar with
And sand waves and
Perhaps you know
Something about
Atolls and coral reefs.What do you know about
The seabed, and where?What do you know about
Erosion, including
Coastal erosion, and how?
What do you know about
What do you know about
Waves of economic shocks
From a global sand crisis or aGlobal semiconductor crisis or a
Global timber crisis or a
Global climate crisis?
How peacefully and
Responsibly do you
Respond to crises?
How do you compare
The extraction of sand with
The extraction of gravel?
What do you know aboutAggregates for concrete?
Perhaps you know
Something about the
And Roman concrete.
How have you
Made your way throughThe sands of time?
Have you ever seen
Wildflowers bloom in a desert?
What do you know about
By William Blake?
How do you assess
Who and what have beenImportant influences
In your life?
How do you grandmothers
Compare with
and the mythological Diana?
George Sand was taught
By her grandmother
Through the ideas of
Jean-Jacques Rousseau.How were you taught
As a child, and by whom,
And why?
And why are you
Reading this grimoire?
How do you tell
What do you want
To know about
The powers of aSand witch and
Their source?
Perhaps you have been
Wrongly.
If you are inspiredOr in Turquerie
Eat a baguette but
Never forget the
True origins of anything,
Including sand and Sandeau.
Do you understand now?
Real witches are
Tellers of truth withHowever they prefer
And their food.
They are never
Unnecessarily rude.
They know how to
And address problems.
They respect lactobacilli.
They appreciate yeast.
They know sourdough.
They have trained to
Understand grains,
Of minerals and cereals
And textiles and
They appreciate seeds.They know about particle sizes.
They know about grain crops.
They know about
Kifli and croissants.
They know about
They know about
They know when to
Take information withThey know about mixtures
Of salt and sand.
They know about filtration.
They know about
Viennoiseries and
Various lunar deities
Various diets and
Symbols of stars and crescents.
The history of fascination
And desecration and desiccation.
They are well acquainted with
The ghosts of cultural heritage.
They hold all facts as sacred
However distressing
Those facts may be.
They work carefully to
Overcome disenchantment.
They respect theIn nature and culture.
They clearly distinguish
Between nature and hubris.
What do you know about
What do you know about
And mudflows?
What do you about
The importance ofVery old trees and
And soil regeneration?
How do you
Show respect towards
The primordial EverTime?
Do you associate sand
How do you distinguish between
Facts and knowledge?How do you distinguish betweenDesecration and secularisation?
What have you discovered about
The secularisation of knowledge
And the sacred importance of facts?
What do you know about
Beach volleyball and dune buggiesAnd eskies and silver sand andSharp sand and black sand
And heavy mineral sands and
Magic sand and ironsand
And coral sand and
Sand sharks and sand tiger sharkAnd sand foxes and sand lizards and
Sand crabs and sand eels
And sand goannas and sand larks and
Seaside resorts andPlacer deposits and molding sand
And sand casting and
And sand filters and
Perceptions and interpretations?
What do you know about
Scheveningen in Holland
And the Chihuahuan Desert and
Lençóis Maranhenses National Park
And Great Sand Sea?
What do you know about
Archimedes?
What do you know about
The Atacama Desert?What do you know about
the destruction of woodlands?
What do you know about
And sea smoke and steam devils and
And Arctic haze and rain shadows and
Optical glories and desert blooms?
What do you know about
The Gobi Desert and desert climates
And ergs and eggs and Uluru and
Aeolian processes and yardangs
And hamadas and desert islands?
What do you know about
The Simpson Desert?
How do you compare Blood and SandWith Mud and Sand, and why?
How have you recently
Been thinking about
Culture and kindness, and why?
What do you know about
Semi-arid climates, and how?
What do you know about
The Tabernas Desert in Spain?
Much of the Earth's surface is
Covered in large oceansOr large deserts.
But where does communitas exist?
You may or may not
Know much about sand flies
Or mud pies or sand volcanoes.
Do you know much about
How do you interpret
Perhaps you prefer novels,Or journalism, or
Descriptions in an
Encyclopaedia,
Or sketches in words
Or images.
What is your acquaintance with
Solange Dudevant, the
Daughter of George Sand?
Perhaps you regard life as
Imitating a novel.Perhaps you regard poetry as
Imitating the divine or
Arising from the divine,
Possibly in several minds at once.
Or perhaps you regard
Most human minds as
Imitative of one another,
With little uniqueness.
How do you account for
Literary fashions,And musical ones,
And textile ones,
And art movements more generally,
And intellectual ones,
And political and spiritual ones?
What, for example, do you know
About the life and career of
How do you think theSand witches act in springtime?
Do they rest to
The Sandman's lullaby
Do they re-enact Primavera
Or even The Birth of Venus?
Are sand witches encounteredOnly as, or during,
Do they dance to
The sands of time?
Perhaps you have
EncounteredA sand witch in a
Or even in
Perhaps you have
Encountered
A sand witch in
A desert or parched fieldIn Australia or as
You may be acquainted with
Or even of Frederick McCubbin.You may be acquainted with
Handel's Messiah even
In a land quite prone to
Catch on fire.
Perhaps you believe in
Guardian angels and
Even imaginary friends.You may even believe in
Perhaps you have taken
Your obsessions from
The Tyburn Tree.From Love in a Village
To Love and Madness and
Through George Sand's Indiana
And on the beaches and
Reefs of Réunion,
And in the Museum ofIn Paris, there is much
To discover and
Truth to recover.
Who knows
Good government
Of societiesAnd emotions?
I wrote my name upon the sand;
I thought I wrote it on thine heart.
I had no touch of fear, that words,
Such words, so graven, could depart.
How do you assess spells?
How well do you understand
The spell of desire?
Please be awareincluding
Sand witches,
Is your responsibility.
Learning the truth
About the world
More generally is
Also your responsibility.
You may smile at the fanciful structures I rear,
And say, that my castles are built but on sand ;
Like bubbles, that on the blue waters appear,
That sparkle, invite, and then sink from the hand.
Where have you seen
What do you know about
When does nature
Why is erosion
Nature is often blamed
There is much to
Whenever buildings are
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