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1960s, 1980s, 2016, 20th century, Bletchley Park, blink, cable, change, children, chimney, colour, communication, culture, data, Edwardian, elbow, ethic, Europe, eyes, grain, Have, history, hotel, ink, knowledge, legacy, living, Luton, marble, meaning, metal, militarism, mind, night, pattern, poem, point, politics, possibility, power, railtrack, rhythm, smell, smile, society, sound, story, subversion, table, the British Empire, thought, time, timetable, typewriter, veins, windows, wood, World War, writing
B le tch l ey P ark
Edwardian fingers pointed
from military sleeve the way
in and the way through
while some knew that a W
will never return a W and
we will henceforth return
to a following possibility of
change, the veins in marble
cladding and the grain in
parquetry floor were no
longer décor of legacy but
cover for subversion – smiling
minds up in front of chimney
stacks – no, now, platted
and inflexible cable linked
lozenges of releasing code
(no-longer-just-location)
in patterns of levered ratchet
across European divide; no more
the flurry scratch of ink across
blotted paper with fortitude
and Empire wile, now the
erstwhile sturdy tables were
anchored by elbow and fallen
eye gazed at shifting pattern,
now the heat of metal and
ribbon made the ink fume
like acid; now was the time
of proletariat genius as tape
connected the diagonals and
metal frame softened and
bent in constant hold;
now the colour was splashed
and the ethic was learned
and the story is told to the
schoolchildren who – blink
visit, 260416, pages of scribbled notes; the poem sifted and shifted until a pattern formed and simultaneously dispersed, across time; in the hotel room in Luton right next to the rail-line which slingshot-ricochet’d passing trainsnotstopping in the window one side, out the window the other, all night and all of the day, in timetable but not necessarily rhythm
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20th century wormhole: impressionism
change wormhole: Doctor Strange I – the trashcan tilted the better to see now the street
chimney wormhole: hinged – From Hell ch. V
communication wormhole: Nostalgia for Samsara – poewieview #16
eyes & Have & history & hotel & time wormhole: tag cloud poem IX – haiku is awkward / the more that is left in / like uncombed hair
knowledge wormhole: 1963
living wormhole: need
meaning wormhole: quite … / … yet – poewieview #12
mind wormhole: becoming
night & society wormhole: no one – poewieview #24
power wormhole: top table
politics wormhole: dear clown’s face
smell wormhole: when writing // stay
smile & thought wormhole: while walking
sound wormhole: 1965
table wormhole: 1964
windows wormhole: mauve
wood wormhole: quick inventory after coffee
writing wormhole: words tumble like / boulders – poewieview #25
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