Oh, that final couplet, L. Old E still finding things to say...
Doug
On 2013-08-08, at 7:24 AM, Lawrence Upton <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Happy St Elid's day everyone. The boat to St Helen's Island leaves from St
> Mary's Quay, Scilly at 2:30 pm.
>
> I'm not even on the archipelago myself; but offer this poem by Elid which I
> have written
>
> L
>
> Soon we cannot cut it; becoming dull:
>
> our teeth our brains,
>
> the whetstone put away
>
> and out of reach;
>
> or the effort so dispiriting
>
> we cooperate with our confusion.
>
> Things stay complicated unmanaged incomprehensible.
>
> No we say no you’ve given me too much
>
> to the empty sky, or to a deaf guard, or ourselves;
>
> and what had once sprung
>
> back or just sliced through
>
> now wobbles in its poor grasp covering
>
> as the bundle bunches itself into a slot,
>
> an old document no one quite understands,
>
> half-forgotten but not circulated yet
>
Douglas Barbour
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