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Saturday, 19 September 2015

Frozen Out

It is a low-cut Sunday

The newly slung autumn sun
Floods the stubble with its orange light
The fields, once fresh with crop
Are shorn; for the winter, for the plough

As lovers we slept
Under Egyptian cotton sheets
The dreams though, soon to be abridged


Friday, 18 September 2015

Put Upon Another

Thursday lunch
Crayfish & Rocket
Watching the guy who cleans up clean up

I sit with my own frustrations
But soon I begin wondering
What are his rack-able doubts

Does he talk to himself about a past love
Is the swift sidestep
A sign of more flamboyant times

He reminds me of my own poem
The Fedora from Buena Vista
Already I hear the samba & the rhumba

Maybe he was once a galactico
On the sands of Rio de Janeiro
His sensual slipstream movements

Reminiscent...
A feel of the breeze
With the sun on your back


Thursday, 17 September 2015

Timetabled

Geometric shapes
Forged
Language
Pummelled & beaten
Silences
Whispered over the heads of corn

Take me there again
To where the light of time is lifted
Away from the lonely
Where what is maybe mine is gifted

Local
Somehow global
Revolving doors
Revolve
Noises
Shout across the crowded room

Let me escape
For certain as a polygon would
Eventually as only
A once regular theorem could

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Wednesday, 16 September 2015

Irksome I: A Review

Breakfast was cold
It suited the cold stories
I came for poetry

My mistake
This was more like
A chilled
Thriller writers exposé

Dan and Ruth led off
Pouring scorn
On our lack of knowing -
The pictures all hung square

Most people had been last year
I won’t be back; the breakfast was old
& it suited their over told stories


Tuesday, 15 September 2015

Den

Harvest time; first we piled the bales high
On the trailer, carted them from field to barn

Sons of farmers and village urchins we became architects
Future participants perhaps for Kevin’s Grand Designs

The main space was deep inside the piled bales
The entrances, and exits, had twists and turns

Part to keep people from knowing of our secret den
Part, as Jenny says ‘to secretly discover our sexual selves

As the winter wore on, and the cattle needed feeding
Our den was dismantled; bale by bale, day by day

First the entrance, then the exit, then the small
Cavern, which had been immense, with boys laughter