the 'embroidery' is what I love about this. the sounds & images flow.
KS
2008/8/12 David Bircumshaw <[log in to unmask]>
> This is a provisional thing. I'd welcome constructive criticism,
> particularly about the last line. Otherwise, it is a thing of echoes,
> as we all are. Worried about an implied Platonism in my post title
> btw.
>
> Yrs
>
> 60's man looking back
>
>
> Mr W.S '68
>
> We wondered about our invulnerability
> in that eternal hungering summer. At times
> rare coins appeared, out of the sun's hat,
> in our infallible pockets, but then at a
>
> quarter before the first swish of night,
> or when you looked up suddenly circumspect
> at the pouring of tea, it seemed as if
> a hole appeared just in the bottom left corner
>
> of an all-seeming, whirled. Or that flash
> photographs snared us, to slot twin
> brittle negatives in the tenderness of heads.
>
> Earth swung, on the sun's string. Years
> clambered upon our faces and what was doubt
> followed as wonder wandered in yet out.
>
>
>
> --
> 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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