Andrew a black faux-leather
Hopalong Cassidy outfit.
Sounds good for a poetry read!
P
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From: Poetryetc: poetry and poetics [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On
Behalf Of andrew burke
Sent: 25 November 2009 10:07
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Subject: snap; trigger finger
My finger catches around a word
and the medicos call it Trigger Finger.
It reminds me of
the back lanes of my youth, drawing against
the fastest cats on the weathered jarrah fence
in my twin-holstered black faux-leather
Hopalong Cassidy outfit. Then
they stick the needle in
and I know I am mortally wounded,
no poems under my hat tonight.
Cats in the back lanes rest easy,
words jeer in my head,
my sentence extended.
No gain in this pain
again and again.
--
Andrew
'Beyond City Limits', pub. ICLL @ ECU, available at topnotch indie bookshops
- list at http://hispirits.blogspot.com/
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