Doddle

Foul day

Strong winds, torrential rain

UA Fanthorpe telling of this thin strip of land

Earlier; gas flames set low, lights dimmed

Sat with a straight back, on a straight backed chair

I joined in a meditation with the Boys of Ampleforth

from 

Elbowed Out - Love of Listening to Michelangelo

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Dream

I could not have thought it otherwise

Yet now I can think of you more easily

Even to think that we could be friends

Though to touch would be a fear

A fear that I might collapse into your arms

In search of all

That I have worked so hard to protect myself from

What brought me to this

It was a dream, less than a second I expect

An image of you with sparkling hair, a smile

A short nightdress

Your pubic hair pushed forwards 

Aching to be touched - I did not touch

To this day some fears remain

from 

Elbowed Out - Love of Listening to Michelangelo

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Stance

There is no present presence

No renewed connection

Any attempt at wilful correction

Dispossesses hope of resurrection

Builds barriers to physical resurgence

Ley-lines that prevent the emergence

Of our embodiment in the ether

An untimely, seminal disturbance

Raised with every whim & fancy

That I breathe or timely mis-chance

from 

Elbowed Out - Love of Listening to Michelangelo

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Scattering

It isn't quiet and it isn't still

It is novel

I watch a tiny train go past

This refuge of humanity 

Past the chalets

Over the shingle

Beside the beached fishing boats

Beneath the electricity pylons

All watched over by the lighthouse

& the swirling flocks of protected birds

A wilderness that I leave

Crossing over the narrow gauge track

I wish you could have been here

To share in the security of treasures lost

& memories found

To share in love, by a fireside

A warm afternoon of cakes

Among daylight custodial rearrangements 

from 

Elbowed Out - Love of Listening to Michelangelo

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Impression

Hollow sky

To take hold indefinitely

To embrace

To follow through to the tree line

To merge

With  the silhouette of bare and empty branches

To reflect

The suns light on the bandstand

To begin the thaw

Of the frozen solid ground

To raise in the shade of the mist

Where a warmer, clearer presence might be found 

from 

Elbowed Out - Love of Listening to Michelangelo

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