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Saturday, 21 June 2014

Constructs

Put a fix on it
Work through the motives
Wake with names on your lips
Be engaged with the day
Take a positive fix


This poem is from the collection 

Friday, 20 June 2014

Ceremony

It is a place of shape and deportment; families of ancients, and families of now
The young Gatsby impersonator tells his grandpapa of the truth of his homosexuality.

There are sharp intakes of breath at the five sided table; that all those years of creating wealth should have come to this.

The ceremony is over; sharp suits, floral dresses, silks, satins and famously feathered hats make their way through the we have seen better days gardens


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Thursday, 19 June 2014

Set it up

Time out to time out
Spot the signs of wear and tear
Pick the pockets of the mind
Rally round the dancing bear

These are the ones
And twos in close collusion
In sharp contrast
To those who are not there

These guys eschew
The terms of confusion
All but bypass the ones
And twos who are not there

Time to time out of this time out
Collect the ticket, pay the fare
Share the dockets; to be so kind
Sally did not find her anger there


This poem is from the collection 

Wednesday, 18 June 2014

Time Off

Eyes closed
A body of messages
Form a disorderly queue
Interrupted

By a call from the hillside
A view of settled grass
Of the wide open moorland
Before the longer view, a more distant Tor

I bought a new watch
It acts as a reminder
Same make, similar model
Stainless steel strap, with inset gold plate

Saturday mornings did it for me then
As they do it for me now
How else to find the space
Time to agglomerate the pace

A place where vapour trails of memories
Can place me between the roof and the floor
Thrust me, hang me helpless, into the chasms
Of neither knowing, nor not ever understanding


This poem is from the collection 

Tuesday, 17 June 2014

Tackle

I wake so early
The stakes higher than before
This pattern called to break
For the sake of all, and evermore


This poem is from the collection