I like the thought of 'embroidery': it has a peaceful, absorbed in its
occupation feel about it.
(ta Kasper)
2008/8/16 kasper salonen <[log in to unmask]>:
> 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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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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