The Oken Stone Podcast

By: Tracy Alexander Rigg
  • Summary

  • Poems, stories and thoughts from Galloway, Scotland.


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    Geology

    Walking, I passed between stones
    unnoticed leaving left and right
    divided by geography.
    An accident of place or time?
    It wasn't clear but crystalline.
    My hemispheres are cut through.
    Thought is hard and ordered,
    slow; blood seems
    an unnecessary fluid,
    heart beats a series
    of shocks across
    tectonic continents of skin.


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Episodes
  • Monument Road
    Apr 9 2025

    Some thoughts on the most peculiar relationship that the fast moving modern town has to its situation. Executive versus historical. Nature versus Cafe Latte. Rocks versus paper and scissors.

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    6 mins
  • Loch Ryan
    Apr 6 2025

    Some musings from the Irish Sea on the way from Galloway to Galway.

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    10 mins
  • The Life Lived
    Mar 1 2025

    This is a further exploration of transience..... of passing to and fro...of lives begun, lived and ended. It is also a celebration of all life.

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    The Life Lived

    The Life Lived
    brought us both here,
    yours and mine,
    you and me.
    Genetic lines -
    I am your impurity
    your blood mixed;
    our commonality
    seeming clear
    makes each a hybridisation,
    nothing pure in the world.
    Your dear dead wife,
    was she the sorceress
    or the apprentice,
    the saucer or the cup?
    But I am not your cup of tea,
    never was.
    Your dear dead self
    within my thumbs,
    some aspect of my nose;
    where is your residence now,
    if not in the way I swing a hammer
    and a certain mystical absorption
    with the sound of a clarianet.

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    ar 2025


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    7 mins
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