I particularly like the second and third stanzas, James.
SallyE
on 11/7/02 9:09 am, James Bell at [log in to unmask] wrote:
> Sorry, a bit more Shakespeare allusion. I've also used a lot of technical
> terms which I find has its own poetry. See what you think.
>
> BOAT BUILDING - A WINTERS TALE
>
> Worst of many sounds amongst the voices,
> of tapping, grinding and sawing - a plank
> begins to split, prelude to starting a line
> of fresh timber, its own cadenza in a concerto,
> the notes found in thicknessing, planing and cutting
> fore and aft, a bevel along the full length
> to fit complex joints and rivet all over again.
>
> Time is costed in days throughout winter,
> includes the pauses for coffee huddles round
> a wood burning stove that eats off-cuts continuously,
> while we watch her lines form into gracefulness
> some weeks after the crucial laying of the keel
> in our season of private boat building alchemy.
> Only true love could make us carry on.
>
> One minute her wood is all sweetness
> where shavings slide off like slivers of cheese -
> next knotty, awkward, makes the plane blade
> slip, judder. All this to see her come to life;
> we are a collective Leontes and she, always she,
> our Hermione, close to a first kiss of paint.
>
>
> bw
> James
>
>
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