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'scape, 2013, 6*, adults, breathing, childhood, death, emergence, floorboards, generation, glow, iron, lifetimes, mourning, piano, portrait, pub, uncle, wood
Michael Redford:
the pub had wall-wide sideboards
and deep sills with iron scales and metal pots and long rusted hinges
that used to hold it all together all
wondrous to a child’s eye when navigating
the ways of adults
but there was someone missing
making all the paragraphs and passages rhyme
and follow-on to craft mysterious a generation
of wood-grain and burnish-glow and printed-hang and floorboard-creak
which I wouldn’t wholly breathe together
for many a decade yet
at the piano which
wasn’t there anymore
* my late uncle who spent times in his life popping across the road to the Nag’s Head and sat at the piano with a held-smile, as if the cigar shaking and smoking in the ashtray on the keyboard ledge were still in his mouth, played
————w(O)rmholes________________________________|—–
breathing wormhole: what?
childhood & emergence & floorboards wormhole: the early morning of the sixties
death wormhole: 1971
lifetimes wormhole: clouds
piano wormhole: beep
uncle wormhole: bombs on / Catford
wood wormhole: objective intimacy
