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The name of David Chaloner crops up from time to time as one who has quietly and unobtrusively produced a body of good work over the years without, perhaps, the respect it deserves. This is a plug for one of his collections - from 1989! which seems to me to have sunk without trace: Peter Hodgkiss tells me he has copies in his garage for them as wants to know more... TRANS by David Chaloner. 64pp 1989 ISBN 1 871537 05 3. Galloping Dog Press, Peter Hodgkiss, 29 Hartside Gardens, Newcastle on Tyne NE2 2JR. Price five pounds sterling (sorry, no other currencies) plus one pound postage in UK or overseas postage at cost. All payments made out to "Peter Hodgkiss". ________________________________ ADDRESS It is not enough to know the time, one has to be there. Hello then. It was Orion, that star formation. It was Ursa Minor and a star cluster. It was nothing but the night sky expanding with a distant hum above our upturned heads. The meteor, short and splendid, scored a diagonal line, returning to dust. One of us did not see and we're no saying who. There is an answer but you are looking uneasy, and I am looking at you, before we look away. The stars continue through the night, and fade in our wake, as we pass beneath them, to fade into sleep, no final question asked, no answer finally given. ________________________________ RC %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%