Afternoon
In East England
Lincolnshire, or some other
Back water
Out in deep and quiet country
A farmyard
A pasture, or some other
Roadside stable
Old patient
Younger nurse
A driver without distinction
Or any other clues due
Except that they were in college
At Oxford or somewhere other
They spoke so so very well
And often together
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Smile, always and forever
The first kiss of late evening
Anticipated excitement, fingers touch
Missiles miss, so so much
Thank you, now or never
The first engagement of assistance
Unexpected, the unusual is tough to come to
Unusually rough to endorse
Wriggle, trip the light fantastic
Fandango under the moons of so so many colours
Detected introspection is uncovered uneasily
Unease, yet easy and plain to see
Together we collect the love of human kindness
So much in love, life seems to redeem so so freely
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I send you a letter, I love the time of writing
And then forget
Next day another phrase catches my ear
Though let us not call it an internal rhyme
We talked of the Camera Obscura
A photograph with a thousand points of view
There through the window, out over the valley
One mile, more or less, away from the ford
In summers heat, perspiration brings
The muddled befuddled mind
To slow down, or jump in the pool
With or without question
In the letter I hoped for a reply
Did you
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Leaf on prickly stalk of bramble
Who would not be hurt by your grazing
Or by the loud voice of that bully of a teacher
That show off, full of arrogance and contempt
Willows sway in all those wild winds
Of slaughter
Show your flex to sustain your summer
Give your shape its beauty, fair play freely
Tarmac trodden with heavy boots
Braziers, flames, smoke, aromatic moisture
Laid down over lost pastures, flattened
And trimmed with a massive machine
The freeway, the autobahn
The rhetoric and the rhetorical question
Listen, can you hear the tough guys
Hear them, they are all alone
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Warm silence
Ice-cold beer
Anger and forgiveness
Inadequate without complaint
Mellow, gentle
Distraught with blame
Shadows and suspicions
Unable to find a name
Whispers are cold
Chilled
Sisters of mercy
Awash with fear
Soft sensitive belongings
A quiet
Walk
Before being buried alive
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