Hi Terri,
I liked this very much - the rhymes work unobtrusively and well, and the
ending is excellent. I used to have one of the maps you're talking about,
too, a map of Leicestershire with islands marked "Part of Derbyshire"
popping up all over the place.
Regards,
Matt
>From: Terri <[log in to unmask]>
>Reply-To: The Pennine Poetry Works <[log in to unmask]>
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>Subject: New sub; Birthday portrait
>Date: Fri, 18 Aug 2006 13:51:47 +0100
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>After long absence and infrequent lurking, I hesitate to post, especially
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>But what the hell - the muse is fickle!
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>Bless
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>Terri )O(
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>Birthday portrait
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>Among the maps and prints of Hay on Wye -
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>- an interlude between adventures, crime
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>and Yeats - I rummaged for a gift,
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>a token for another notch in time.
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>Already I've forgotten what you said
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>about the boundaries - how Derbyshire,
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>before our town existed, stretched and held
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>in purple circles parts of Leicestershire.
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>What still impresses me is how you know
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>such things - your memory a pointillist
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>collection of illuminating facts,
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>like speckled gemstones rifled from the past.
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>In contrast I am blurred, my edges torn,
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>a crumpled memo of forgotten names,
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>times tables, recitations, poetry
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>committed once and somehow lost again.
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>I bought a Rackham print you said you liked,
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>a flowing creature cut from Peter Pan,
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>glad to discover, in your well-mapped world,
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>a place for an imaginary woman.
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