‘The air’s soft whispers’ is a long evocation of a particular feeling that might arise when walking amongst the hills of my home county, Shropshire. In particular, it deals with the feeling of being alone in nature, when all you can hear is the wind rushing past you. I find moments like these create a very particular kind of aloneness: a real sense of isolation, but simultaneously a connectedness with the world around you. It is in this unique atmosphere that I come closest to escaping the inevitability of the passing of time. And it is from this timelessness that I find my richest inner worlds can emerge.