I like the alphabetical order, Bill:
Ch then Cu,
and from Wh to Wo…
I once posted a tiny verse lament and not
being in the bookshops between
Raworth and Rilke.
Presumably this year's journal is the latest
of a great many - all kept and in order?
These lines of yours achieve a certain tone and form.
Maybe a sequel is called for - once some elephant
gets tended to…
Max
On 09/04/2014, at 7:20 AM, Bill Wootton wrote:
> Between The Children
> and The Custom of the Country
> lies the journal of my days.
>
> Plucked before breakfast
> from its enclosing Whartons,
> pages bent back ready for pen.
>
> Pen hovers rarely, inclining
> more to jump to ready blather,
> or opens with dreams
>
> recalled, dismembered,
> assembled, disappearing
> as they empty on to page.
>
> Mornings recount yesterdays,
> rarely anticipations. More
> often lists, summings up.
>
> What questions avoided,
> what room elephants
> unexamined.
>
> bw
> 9.4.14
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