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Subject:

Re: the heat from my head

From:

John Carley <[log in to unmask]>

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The Pennine Poetry Works <[log in to unmask]>

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Wed, 27 Mar 2002 19:47:06 -0000

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Hi all, this is the ten verse sequence the first four of which I posted
under the working title 'the heat from my head'.

Grassy and Arthur both commented on what was then the 'concluding' verse -
verse four below. Perhaps it make a little bit more sense in context now.
No, Grassy - I'd missed dreary old Leonard (only joking - I used to have
that album). To Arthur's point, well I'm a great fan of ambivalence, indeed
multivalence, in writing. In so far as that verse refers to a state of
almost manic depression it is intended to flip between the throw-away
stupid and, especially if one picks up the Basho reference, the very
bitter.

Any and all comment welcome as ever. Thanks, John

--
  midges bathe   in the heat from my head
before they too   are gone

a pheasant calls me   all the way   from China


oaks pull upward   from their moorings
          deep within   the floating world

but truly   monkey   did you give a poet's


                        stroke the pen   across the page
and now the heron's feathers   blue

a dog will bark   no matter what   the season


trout fly sideways   from the surface
             upstream   of the fisherman

a stranger stops   to ask me   for directions


from the steam train   children smile
                a greeting   to the unknown lens

the rattletats fade   before they too   are gone

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