First Trip - Summer '68


It was a friendly little capsule - light pink as I stood before the sunshiney windows and red velvet curtains...

The room, massive beauty around ancestors & trinkets. Table I slept under, carpet for blanket - hair matted in dust - the couch & armchairs - old friends from Mandraxed & red-wined nights poems written blissful loving wonder... Altogether friendly then, & soft summer day to explore & wander in - I placed the soft bendy half cap on my tongue - Strawberry Fields forever...

Leaving "Morroch", Matt, Brian, Jim, Maureen & I walk to the moor adrenaline flowing - well, it's the first time - Brian's last night, Matt's too � today Matt is on Hollis Brown - Matt, the wild thin enthusiast - Hollis has opium or something - does he care? �

We walk by the river to the moor - sun shining kindly on us - through the moor then to a soft mossy dell and heather spongy openness - sitting together on a warm rocky plateau. � Twenty minutes then of pure heavenly laughter, chuckling at everything there was - heartfelt warm glowing - can't turn the mouth down - it simply wont obey - smiley safe happy... �

Then, we all saw it - the horizon, approaching malevolent - dire threat & deathly strangeness - time to go... - Maureen bounding down the little dirt path - giant friendly rabbit leaping - warm animal energy - brown. And inside my head beautiful long sensual streaks of fine turqoise red & green crystal liquids and words floating stretch round my ears �

Then, the soaring power unlimited unstoppable surge inside up to my head - no way to stop this surging power - Think of something mundane, quick! TV tonight - anything! Jim understands & it's okay.

Lying back on the heather looking up into the blue. Peaceful, breathing out again - silent ghostly indians dance round the sun �

Us grouped by the bushes - Jim's nose: the detail! - see the friends in spirit - bare naked being - timeless love fills me - we, the soft helpless tapestries seem to be awake only in these tiny windows...

Walking back & the bushes glow with life force - me saying always Wow inside � & the road, cars flying so close - I 'know' I can bend pliable under those wheels and out the other side - but a smiling voice tickles me inside & whispers no �

Back, we sit on the carpet � Jim's dog Duke wanders curious playfully aware of our alteration - Jim's Mum brings me toasted cheese - I gaze stunned half bemused/disgusted trying to get this - I give it to Duke on the floor �

The music swirls moving my mind, eternal Jimi playing - the tree through the window is a cascade of chain reaction, branches flow to the sky in crystal patterns �

In my head an intensely green dragon with little replicas sprouting from nose & ears �

A girl asks how I feel - like a tiny child - I tell her about the giant sponge filling my head �

I wander to the toilet on the landing - sitting there i can't remember how you do this - where are those mind-body triggers? - funny - I smile at how other this is �

Coming down slowly 10 - 12 hours the nerves tingle comfort - warm loving fingers of peace descend - and the night wraps around us - the waltzer slows to a stop and we lie dazed and tingling washed up on the shore

We have survived a holy chemical assualt on mind, body, brain and being

Will life ever look the same again?

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