Civil Twilight: Carving Dreamtime

But earlier the light was witchy,
 instamatic and shining, 6 degrees over the horizon every day.
 The sun in this world on its way
 from my porch in the west.
 There is a song in the grass
 against the whine of the jet.
 It all evaporates and decays,
 not into silence but into life. 

Peter Gizzi, extract from ‘Civil Twilight’

Get your brain sticky in the pumpkin meat of the circadian and
join Kevin Leomo and Maria Sledmere in carving dreamtime as an
expression of creativity and low carbon pleasure. As the nights
draw in and the clocks go back, we’ll be thinking about how
darkness affects mood and slumber.

Civil twilight is the brightest of the three twilight phases,
where stars and planets might be seen in the sky as the sun dips
just below the horizon. By attending to the ‘nocturne’ as a form
in poetry and music, we’ll dwell in the possibilities of liminal
experience for cultivating ecological imaginaries.