This is based on a reading by an American poet, David Mason Heminway I heard
read at a poetry festival.
READING POETRY
Already after much reading
the pages of quality paper
have began to fray -
by accident a spot of tea
has tarnished the perfect
bound paper wrapper cover
on the front.
After listening to you read
the reonance still comes
from the text set in
Goudy Old Style and makes
new poems possibilities
each time each poem here
is read, though it is said
you need to be young to hold
such feeling in the breast
and just goes to show
the state of perishable flesh
is nothing whatever age
it finally lights out at
no longer tuned in to the
strains of a blue guitar
or fresh figs in a still
blue bowl of nakedness
and sensuality that defies years
for flesh has nothing
on the power of the muse
to take us places we
have never been and place
the experiences between paper
you want to lick like
vanilla ice cream - consume
each syllable before it melts
and slips incoherently
between your fingers
instead of printed fast
on paper like fine parchment
to exist longer at least
a hundred years or so after
our own tinme - and then
there's the thought that
the text will either be
gone or forgotten in the rush
of verse that comes from
all those around, or will
have found a new format
beyon
bw
James
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