I really like this and see the gentleman ( or his close cousin) often. A
very good poem Cara. One nit, aren't the last two words redundant. Just
where is the county of spaces, cheeses and sheep? Could be Yorkshire!
----- Original Message -----
From: "cara may" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Friday, December 28, 2001 6:56 PM
Subject: New sub for c and c:Joshua
> Hi All,I submit this with great trepidation since I
> feel I may not have learned the lessons several of you
> tried to show me on my last appearance. Happy
> Hogmanay.cheers, cara
>
>
> -- Joshua
>
> --Here he is!
> thirsty for opening hours:
> his pale head strains to level with the counter;
> his maturity's worn sizes too large,
> to grow into - given time.
>
> He orders
> books about Greeks, Romans,
> what he calls the 'Chelts',
> to be invoked from other libraries, other readers,
> in this county of spaces, cheeses, sheep.
>
> One week later he's back!
> finds that bureaucratic clocks
> creak to their own time;
> foiled, turns to the single table
> with its bound copies of the Town Gazette.
>
> He reads of 1857:
> messuages for sale, miraculous
> powder to end lumbago, travelling
> conjurors, soothsayers, almanacs
> of court events and ships' arrivals.
>
> I see the light that glows
> on vunerable skin, and from within.
> Will the world give him time
> for Time? I ask.
>
>
>
> cara December End 2001
>
>
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