wonderful, thanks so much for sharing these
KS
2008/9/12 Judy Prince <[log in to unmask]>
> Thought I'd locate for you the 3 poems of Liz Bassett whose poetry I most
> highly esteem.
> Following is her 'First Love' poem found in John Burnside's Poetry
> Workshop,
> 2 November 2005, in the _GUARDIAN_:
>
> *First love by Liz Bassett*
>
> You feel it now - in the after school light
> that is leaf mush and wooden birds clicking
> in trees, and the pale bellies of planes spilling
>
> shooting stars more bright; more instant than love
> - and your twelve slow years folded behind you
> waiting; knowing this love, already.
>
> You hold it close - brittle as the limbs of
> old dolls you found buried like mandrake roots;
> like bones of birds in slow, insistent flight
>
> through earth - and below the breathing clouds
> tomatoes hold out their stubborn globes of light.
>
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