Happy Hadrons of the Season, Patrick!
2008/12/8 Patrick McManus <[log in to unmask]>:
> Dave thanks a cheery strt to the day!
> Padraig
>
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> From: Poetryetc: poetry and poetics [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On
> Behalf Of David Bircumshaw
> Sent: 08 December 2008 02:02
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> There was sadness in the creatures, and blotched fur.
> We considered the options of prods, probes, questions
> but the droop of their eyes, ears and silence told
> that we were the cause of their sorrow. How furry
>
> our nights had once been, what warm blankets
> of together had once covered us, what intimacies
> of teddy-bears and dolls had the world held
> before the talk ceased to be imaginary
>
> and turned into financial reports, peer reviews,
> collusions of hadrons, long trudges in the mud
> of gossip, back-scratching, bad breath, prose.
>
> Once I woke from a dream of pot-plants screaming
> as they died at their owners' hands: yet the creatures
> remain, wrapped in their sadness, like shrouds.
>
> --
> David Bircumshaw
> Website and A Chide's Alphabet
> http://homepage.ntlworld.com/david.bircumshaw/
> The Animal Subsides http://www.arrowheadpress.co.uk/books/animal.html
> Leicester Poetry Society: http://www.poetryleicester.co.uk
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David Bircumshaw
Website and A Chide's Alphabet http://homepage.ntlworld.com/david.bircumshaw/
The Animal Subsides http://www.arrowheadpress.co.uk/books/animal.html
Leicester Poetry Society: http://www.poetryleicester.co.uk
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