I hadn't thought about Edwin Muir, Rob, interesting. I think I had an
image more in mind from the film Gremlins, that is of the
proto-Gremlin before all the nasty transformations!
Best
Dave
2008/12/8 Robin Hamilton <[log in to unmask]>:
> Nice one, dave.
>
> Edwin Muir somewhere in the backgound?
>
> Like the half-rhymes, and the Petrarchan structure.
>
> Robin
>
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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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