Thanks Harriet - I liked it very much. Where in France are you?
Best
Alison
>Harriet wrote this to the list, but it got rejected, I'm not sure why, so
>I'm cutting & pasting it into this post ~ Martin.
>
>Lurking lurking lurking but I'm in France and writing and so here is a very
>new poem to break my hiding.
>
>Harriet
> Voice Cracked
>
>Austerities
>the lingering
>
>And so it was
>when the bereft produced the sanguine
>and the sanguine produced the bereft
>and the disposition of the lingering one
>sucked in
>
>And the tumult began again
>Not as noise
>yet as trumpet calls from within
>the box of irony saved
>in the telephone booth
>where the human voice
>articulated and hid
>the body
>
>He was going to respond
>but could not
>The telephone had its own problems
>Austerities
>corporate austerities
>smothering benign corpuscular articulation
--
"The only real revolt is the revolt against war."
Albert Camus
Alison Croggon
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