Recuperating a Lost World

It's an abecedarian book filled with delightful acrostics. My favourite is the opening one with its anaphoric elements that build to an acknowledgement of the generous amplitude of the small.

As flake is to blizzard, as
C [...]
O [...]
R [...]
Near is to far, as wind is to weather, as
   feather is to flight, as light is to star, as
   kindness is to good, so acorn is to wood.

Robert Macfarlane The Lost Words: A Spell Book illustrated by Jackie Morris.

And so for day 2294
25.03.2013