Robert Gray

essay memorisation

Celebrate nature’s restorative power

Barely’ / ‘one great arc

Challenge human-centred values

Its lighthouse a tiny pawn

Elevate nature as artistic and spiritual

Cézanne / Duchamp allusions

Reject consumerism and urban identity

Ruffled a bit, stowed the book and wash bag, and city clothes

Criticise destructive urbanisation

Driven like stakes into the earth

There is fog over the sun

Expose consumerism’s environmental consequences

Affirm nature’s restorative influence

Sunlight rotating off the drab carpet

Condemn industrial destruction

Booms and cracks’ / ‘tears the wind apart

Warn against humanity’s destructive trajectory

I realise I am in the future

Encourage environmental awareness

The sound of the curtains lifting

Celebrate nature’s coexistence with urban life

The sunlit towns strewn like petals

Celebrate spiritual transcendence through nature

I wear great wings