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And on North Uist, we went
into the chambered cairn

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of Barpa Langass,
the oldest standing

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roof in northern
Europe, from 4000 BC.

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We crawled into it and
recorded a poem with a harpist.

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It was terrible sound, actually.

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[LAUGHTER]

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"Barpa Langass.

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Basho's 'Temple of
Eiheiji' is Barpa Langass,

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our chambered cairn,
our North Uist.

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We crouched to crawl in the
oldest, darkest of our temples,

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each chosen stone carried,
with deliberation,

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to the right place.

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We take turns to create the
passage into the paved womb.

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Rhodri's plucked harp
strings fall in and out

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of silence shifting the tone--

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throwing a thousand, thousand
images, void, into the light

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where they reverberate,
or flecked, nice.

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We hug our knees tighter
together in the chamber,

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sensing the dark as
a membrane of time.

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Feeling silence within, before
we arrive, and after we leave.

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Squaring the circle of
longing, reconciling

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the need for distance and
the desire for settledness.

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For what's an ending but
the place you begin again."

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