great poem I esp. like
>and you understand anew the fragility of all touch
>there is no time for its midnight pollen drifting through your veins
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From: "Alison Croggon" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: 09 September, 2001 5:41 PM
Subject: Another poem
> sometimes pain seems to be the truest thing there is
> it sits behind your eyes like a shivering animal
> whose vision is a foil wretched with reflections
> even skins are razors luminous with unshed blood
> and you understand anew the fragility of all touch
> how real and clumsy it is a derailed train in which
> corpses curl beneath the shuddering metal and collide
> discourteously and the worm wakes in the brainpan
> sniffing the stench of tears - it is an excess of course
> and thus shrugged and deadened - there is no time
> for its midnight pollen drifting through your veins
> rooting and flowering into hallucinatory lymphonae
> for shuttered lids and tongues tasting of iron for the
> impotence of a half formed gesture which gutters out
> and leaves a trail of rust inside the stilled hand
> for the clarities which ripple in its silence
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> Alison Croggon
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