on 27/8/03 10:17 PM, Norton Hodges at [log in to unmask] wrote:
> Snapshot: autumnal
>
>
> Snorers should be put on
> special machines which,
> when clamped tightly,
> facilitate a quiet night -
>
> quiet night when the
> moon smokes lazily
> one foot crossed over
> the other yellow leg
>
> quiet night undisturbed
> by family klaxons or
> the calculations of
> lost sheep (one, two...)
>
> quiet night with sky
> Magrittes of slipper, pipe,
> dull background, boredom,
> nothing doing (good)
>
> quiet night of blank
> jazz autumn cool
> and stepping back
> to jump again -
>
> for when the fog
> horn starts up on the river
> and the blocked breather
> begins her performance art
>
> all my noisy ghosts
> put on their Reeboks
> and throng yakking
> past my door..
>
>
> Norton Hodges, Oakham, Rutland
Almost all of this (read dopily at 5am, having had blocked breathing and had
to apologize for my snoring) gives me good old-fashioned pleasures of
meeting piquant observations well-organized by a playfully inventive mind.
To have a fresh phrase for the moon! Mind you, I feel I'm being asked to
believe there is a real river (in legendary Rutland?) where autumn fog
requires a horn...and that stretches my credulity.
Max Richards, Melbourne
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