Liked the poem. What are "sub tuums"?
Roger
On 3/28/07, Caleb Cluff <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> The boy fell from the factory roof. Or off, singing as he went,
> carolling through mini-atmospheres. His breath
> is one song, and the building sings within him as he falls.
>
> Behind him, the sawtooths make their rip along the sky,
> staccato hips of grey asbestos. Empty factory, silent factory
> but for its song, the canticles of glass rising, the sub tuums of stone
> waiting
>
> to meet the boy, who fell for love of climbing
> and seeing; whose refrain is that of the tower we scale
> to fall from. Or off.
>
> Caleb Cluff
> Majorca, VIC
> 28/03/07
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