Robert Sheppard
Voices Over
The brown brickwork
of the distant sanctuary
remains wall-eyed, but memory
slices its line
through the woods
from the trees, enters
the scratched
tunnel worming
where red lips
stick on the darkness,
a promise about to be
broken, or shadows
as the blind light
shears across
an escaping runway, the
fish-tail of a jet plunging
into fog, makes up
a face that prints
its human evasions on
the page I
live on
on time
through which I sink until
it freezes,
dancing angelic across hoisted
antennae in the valley, blots the
already frosty reception, knowing
the mystery of what’s over
the hill keeps me,
the shock of spinning the dials
to find exactly what’s
needed now: the word dove
printed above the picture
of a pouncing tiger.
Page(s) 159-160
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