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2013, 7*, ankle, attention, being, breasts, creativity, earth, horizon, legs, light, lotus, meadow, morning, muse, nose, stone, Sylvia Plath, Tara, thinking, trees, walls, words, writing
thar she perched
on the dry stone-capped
stone wall one morning
misty swirled the trees
on the flat-meadow horizon
with
right leg folded down
slipper-pointing to the earth and
sharp-ankle contrast with the stone
and
the left leg folded up over anchored
over her right knee padding-pushing
a loose stone? Tara ready
to step from her lotus with
pretty waist and pulled back
sleeves – wait wait
she pulls the sheet from the
neat clack typewriter perched
nestled against shin bone
in her lap – whawassat? – sheet
stays wrapped around the platen
shoulders bandana’d hair
pointy nose pointy breasts all
read attention into the words
held
held
and while a telegraph pole
leans slightly from the weight
of its messages a light
flashes up from the trees
————w(O)rmholes________________________________|—–
attention wormhole: alien / and awkward
being wormhole: let
creativity wormhole: waiting
earth & Sylvia Plath wormhole: preoccupied
horizon wormhole: the bench / on the fourth sister from / Birling Gap before the / wind-brushed scrub and gorse / and the grey-blue sky / smoothed through the / fishtank-blue horizon to / grey-green sea
light wormhole: 1971
morning wormhole: the pleasant land / of counterpane
muse wormhole: out!
stone wormhole: school uniform
thinking wormhole: stop
trees wormhole: new garden
words wormhole: reading // unstirred
writing wormhole: both
m lewis redford said:
I know it’s not, somehow, blog etiquette, but, yes, I ‘like’ this piece in particular
my troubles creating and posting through a cocktail of WordPress & Talk Talk ISP are far from over, but I got very excited writing this poem and it was worth the frustration of spending over two days getting this post prepared
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Rhino House said:
It was indeed worth it.
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m lewis redford said:
phew!
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April said:
F*CK blog etiquette. I recently “liked” one of my own lonely little poems that nobody else did. Because…well…I really liked it. Good work, I enjoyed reading it.
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Liana said:
held
held
me
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m lewis redford said:
then you must be ‘perched’;
thank you
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Michele Seminara said:
Beautiful!
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m lewis redford said:
yes, she was;
thank you
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