Notes wheatear ‘…try to say what you see and feel and love and lose’ – Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet the discovery Discoverer of graphene Andre Geim made headlines in 1997 when he used a magnetic field to levitate a frog, garnering him an IgNobel Prize in 2000. He co-authored a paper with his favourite hamster, Detection of earth rotation with a diamagnetically levitating gyroscope, insisting that ‘H. A. M. S. ter Tisha’ contributed to the levitation experiment ‘most directly’. According to Wikipedia the hamster later applied for a PhD at the University of Nijmegen. Geim developed a micro-fabricated adhesive mimicking a gecko lizard’s sticky footpads. ‘Singing mesh’ – Terrence Tiller. red spider mite  ‘the feel of not to / feel it’ – from ‘In drear nighted December’ by John Keats sycamore bark Quotations are from Paul Celan / Nelly Sachs: Correspondence, translated by Christopher Clark (Sheep Meadow Press). yarak Three sentences of this poem are adapted from Raptors of California by Hans Peeters and Pam Peeters (University of California Press). seven springs of ozleworth The final two lines are adapted from Charles Tomlinson’s poem ‘In Arden’ from The Shaft (Oxford University Press). 85