Hotmail is incredibly slow to day so I'm just going to post another poem and
call it a day and speak to you all next week. This is straight from the
notebook and revised as I. C&c at this stage is always very welcome. I feel
I'm still trying to catch the poem's form in this one.
EXCEPTIONAL
Peace again today.
No human involvement.
Such is the blessed irony
as the curlew dawdles
and pecks at the sandbar surface
beside the river we all suppose
is still flowing
though you's have to
dip a finger to tell.
Not often you can count ten terns
standing in a perfectly straight row
on the waterline
on a stage the curlew has now left
while the usual flocks of gulls and geese
are gathered much further out - yes,
exceptional peace today
where the scene reflects
just part of that word's true power.
bw
James
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