Was that 'collusions' or 'collisions' David?
I like the turn this take, either way...
Doug
On 7-Dec-08, at 7:01 PM, David Bircumshaw wrote:
> 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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let us edit for breakfast
our most unspeakable appetites --
. . . . .
let us answer hunger
with boild chimera
and apocalyptic tea,
an arcane salad of spiced bibles,
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