Thanks for posting, Dominic. Lovely.
> Date: Sun, 25 Jul 2010 14:11:53 +0100
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> Subject: Re: R.I.P Douglas Clark
> To: [log in to unmask]
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> Very sad to hear this. I also have two of Douglas's late books -
> remember warmly his gesture of giving them away to anyone who might
> appreciate them. I wrote this, a few years ago, in homage to him:
>
> A landslide of hooves - first distant
> and then up-close. The ear strains
> after reminiscence or is punctured
> by voices, snatches of uncouth song.
>
> The inner life belongs to Genghis Khan.
> Manners and love are things of circumstance -
> not substance. The women melt away,
> grow solid elsewhere, leave behind their names.
> Cats come and go, frisking their way through poems.
>
> * * *
>
> Dominic
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