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Edmund Stowe
The trees of his flooded fields still require water I have counted the dead of Europe and have painted their likenesses on the long walls Cronaca Souversiva I have a belief in the existence of God Ci sono i fantasmi sopra i gigli bianchi I will cover the martyrs of the great shame On the […]
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Mother and Daughter
Frame times frame by frame Does this dry plate record The twelve times meeting Of a mother and child. Only the economy of time Knows no truths Of the suspended walk And the freeze framed kiss. 1980
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Captain Webb
When swimming the captain will hear The Song of Angharad in the sounds of the waves. She will swim beneath him unseen such are the mysteries of song
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From Arthur Edward Waite (Letters to Alice)
When apart My heart shall be thy garden As I travel away from you I will cherish your Thoughts in separation I will write my long letters To a poet That I will never meet This is the Song Of the Spring to the Summer
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Games with Spoons
I collect the spoons of the great exhibitions so that I may witness the concave reflections of my ancestors
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Reading Dunbar At Avoncliff
Did you not fall at Flodden my secular priest ? or do you still live on these itinerant pages ? within the sound of the Avon clear . c 1973
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Hungerford Wharf (Spring 2011)
In lazy procession the ducks head in the general direction of Bristol they are taking their young to see the suspension bridge and to have tea with Miss Henley and her wonderful petticoats The moorhen is picking grubs from the tow rope of a barge still damp from the journey I will stay in this […]
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Hungerford Bridge
Like a goat on a mountain face You cling to life But shortly all will share your sanity In the spring of 2011 a pedestrian footbridge was added to the eighteenth century canal bridge in Hungerford West Berkshire
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Hungerford Poplar
Let my amber tears drop into the small fires of the home hearth for its smoke will serenade the last man as he shelters from the promised ash
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Liberal Arts
Dead Pheasants On my journey today I passed some balloons tied to a tree They invited me to a party So I taught them to fly Montreal Adams designed airports to resemble spaceships as she thought planes obsolete A Journey of Advantages on the last day the condemned man and his executioner played dice together […]