Subhadassi
Turn off your Phone
Turn off your phone.
Place it, face down,
on cold sandstone: that oxblood-red back-step
she buffed for sixty years.
Look out
past the well-kept lawn, its marrow stripes
while radio waves walk through walls,
bark, bone and steel:
congregate to a signal.
Rest your eyes beyond the fence
on the trunks of birch that ebb into the wood.
Feel those white trees breathe.
The entropy
of branch and leaf may offer some relief.
Whether they do or don't,
after a time you must pick up your phone,
face its empty screen:
turn it on again.
Place it, face down,
on cold sandstone: that oxblood-red back-step
she buffed for sixty years.
Look out
past the well-kept lawn, its marrow stripes
while radio waves walk through walls,
bark, bone and steel:
congregate to a signal.
Rest your eyes beyond the fence
on the trunks of birch that ebb into the wood.
Feel those white trees breathe.
The entropy
of branch and leaf may offer some relief.
Whether they do or don't,
after a time you must pick up your phone,
face its empty screen:
turn it on again.
Subhadassi was born in Huddersfield in 1967. He has undertaken various artistic commissions and residencies in the North East of England, including a poetry film script commission, a residency on
Newcastle's underground and a Poetry Society Poetry Places residency. His first collection of poems, peeled, is due Summer 2004 (Arc). He lives in Cumbria where he works as a freelance writer and runs a Buddhist Educational Charity.
Newcastle's underground and a Poetry Society Poetry Places residency. His first collection of poems, peeled, is due Summer 2004 (Arc). He lives in Cumbria where he works as a freelance writer and runs a Buddhist Educational Charity.
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