Back on the Map
"Such nonsense! But let the tale unfold"
Mind dance, a daze, a risk, a rainbow -
yes, the choice is obvious and yet
if the shadow of a tree were to fall
across your gaze
what chance of my call
ever being returned?
underneaths. howevers. ifs.
The inaccurate grammatical.
Or take the bee line towards
a mistakes we might made
(fragment of fuzz, a warped
sense of reals of light)
My? Your? How our can reach
and then watch the escalators
recede into darks our hearts
seldom stretch to. Stay.
Keep my hand. Us, scares
the story they told:
wheels click and rails sing
along all the nonethelesses.
effortless, rule and creations:
except, however you time it or try it,
the bells clang, rattle, elsewheres.
So if the chord progression's logic
we followed, the steps lead out
and into the air of a painting
framed by fountains, gardens,
the whole image shining
as your nevers shiver, rattle of ice
when the waves beating ceaseless
is your turn to shriek
an endless loop rewinding
as your name's on the answermachine
over and over and over
it's accurate. it's out of time
it's how peaceful the meadow the wet
the cows in the late light unravelling
and the longer long shadows mapping
the edges
not once not twice but ever.
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- Cannon's Mouth, The
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- Interpreter's House, The
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- Lamport Court
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- Modern Poetry in Translation
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- North, The
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- Obsessed with pipework
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- Painted, spoken
- Paper, The
- Pen Pusher Magazine
- Poetry Cornwall
- Poetry London
- Poetry London (1951)
- Poetry Nation
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- Quarto
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- Review, The
- Rialto, The
- Second Aeon
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- Shearsman
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- Staple
- Strange Faeces
- Tabla Book of New Verse, The
- Thumbscrew
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