Thank you, Nathan. It connects me to a personal history I know all too
little of (there's nobody alive anymore on my father's side that I know) so
I just have scraps of memories told to me in childhood.
I'm not happy with the details of word-order in the last stanza myself
(there's also an additional phrase I drop and then write back in again).
Some poems take a long time to get quite right (only yesterday I finally
resolved a problem in a piece I wrote two years ago)
Best
Dave
On 26/03/2008, Nathan Hondros <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
> I don't have anything much to say about this, other than I like it alot.
> It
> connects me to a personal history I know nothing of.
>
> On Wed, Mar 26, 2008 at 6:59 AM, David Bircumshaw <
> [log in to unmask]>
> wrote:
>
>
> > Circum circa
> >
> > Circa a European Year of Revolutions,
> > of Kossuth and Cavour and Louis Napoleon's Eighteenth Brumaire,
> > when Chartists massed, faintly tinted in life colours,
> > in the first known crowd photograph
> > and a grim economist fused a hissing manifesto,
> > one man found everything to lose,
> > one man preserved
> >
> > by the Heanor and District Historical Society,
> > one man who might have been
> > co-patrilineal
> >
> > to this one, scribbling here, a bone trace of age unstated,
> > Joseph of my surname, asphyxiated (circa)
> > 1848 at a firedamp lit hard seam at Loscoe pit.
> >
> > --
> > 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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