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‘turning right …’

11 Friday May 2012

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'scape, 1982, 4*, flagpole, moon, Southsea, supermarket, time, walking, windows

 

 

 

                                                                 turning right
                                                                 the moon
                                                                 appeared from a window
                                                                 above the supermarket

                                                                 making for the flagpole

                                                                 six o’clock

 

 

 

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moon & & Southsea & walking wormholes: ‘left now …’
time wormhole: winter / weeks
windows wormhole: ‘the dining room …’

 

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‘left now …’

11 Friday May 2012

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'scape, 1982, 4*, faces, moon, newsagent, Southsea, streets, walking

 

 

 

                       left now
                       the moon
                       retreats backwards along
                       the street
                       distracted

                       from the newsagent
                       the smiling Chinese face
                       of an old friend who is

                       still young

 

 

 

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part of >>> Portsmouth – Southsea
faces wormhole: clown
moon & Southsea & streets & walking wormholes: ‘turning into …’

 

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‘turning into …’

11 Friday May 2012

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'scape, 1982, 4*, moon, red, Southsea, streetlight, streets, walking

 

 

 

                                              turning into
                                              the high street

                                              the moon glided
                                              over the streetlamps

                                              and in the opposite
                                              side street

                                              red car lights
                                              flashed quietly

 

 

 

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part of >>> Portsmouth – Southsea
moon & Southsea & walking wormhole: the moon
red wormhole: ‘after …’
streets wormhole: ‘with delight …’
streetlight wormhole: ‘at night …’

 

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the moon

11 Friday May 2012

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'scape, 1982, 4*, clouds, life, moon, Southsea, walking, writing

 

 

 

                                             the moon

                                the clouds have
                                covered it now
                                in my baggy
                                trousers I realise

                                I write better poems
                                than before I
                                was married

 

 

 

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part of >>> Portsmouth – Southsea
clouds wormhole: ‘small town busy …’
life wormhole: lifetime
moon wormhole: ‘between the moon …’
Southsea & walking wormhole: ‘with delight …’
writing wormhole: wanting to be loved

 

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‘with delight …’

11 Friday May 2012

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'scape, 1982, 4*, child, mother, passing, Southsea, streets, voices, walking, walls

 

 

 

                                     with delight
                the child walked along
                the wall at his
                mother’s shoulder

                behind me they continued,
                “mu-uummm…”

 

 

 

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part of >>> Portsmouth – Southsea
child wormhole: open window
mother wormhole: truck
passing wormhole: dawn
Southsea wormhole: blue and red
streets wormhole: midnight
voices wormhole: ‘big cheeky smile …’
walking wormhole: ‘between the moon …’
walls wormhole: ‘the red and white bollard …’

 

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‘between the moon …’

11 Friday May 2012

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'scape, 1982, 4*, church, evening, green, mist, moon, Portsmouth, statue, Victoria, walking

 

 

 

        between the moon
        and the church
        floats a block of flats

        and in the square
        Queen Victoria by the
        offices in the evening

        light
        green
        mist

 

 

 

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part of >>> Portsmouth – Southsea
church wormhole: ‘after …’

evening wormhole: the figure “46” / in frosted glass
green wormhole: ‘”plink” …’
mist wormhole: … Saturday arrived
moon wormhole: 9:05
walking wormhole: ‘after …’

 

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‘after …’

11 Friday May 2012

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'scape, 1982, 4*, black, cars, church, library, mauve, Portsmouth, rain, red, roads, walking, white

after
studying in the library

the square was
wet

and mauve
the side of the church

and alongside
the main road

the black white and red
cars returning home

 

 

 

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part of >>> Portsmouth – Southsea
black wormhole: ‘stomping home from school …’
cars & red & white wormholes: ‘big cheeky smile …’
church wormhole: ‘a most intense blue …’
mauve wormhole: Cumbria
rain wormhole: clown
roads wormhole: ‘“blck” “blck” …’
walking wormhole: ‘the road is long …’

 

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evening

03 Saturday Mar 2012

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'scape, 1982, 3*, cars, city, evening, faces, passing, streets

 

 

 

                      evening

                in the
                downtown quarter

                faces watch
                the parked cars

                some look through
                steam from pans

                some
                wipe the shelves

 

 

 

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evening wormhole: 1972
cars & passing wormhole: ‘the barking dog …’
city wormhole: ‘down in the yards …’
faces wormhole: hands in pockets
streets wormhole: ‘the quiet boy …’

 

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the Mother of Wisdom

02 Friday Dec 2011

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'scape, 1982, 3*, faces, Prajnaparamita, Priory, smile, train, yellow

 

 

 

                           the Mother of Wisdom

                           on
                the back of
                the opposite
                seat and as
                the train
                sped through the country
                she sat
                still
                yellow
                and smiling

 

 

 

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faces wormhole: ‘the politics of Have becomes a morality …’
train wormhole: train
yellow wormhole: Batworld

 

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blue and red

02 Friday Dec 2011

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'scape, 1982, 4*, blue, breeze, red, silence, sky, Southsea, trees, windows

 

 

 

                                                              blue and red

various lengths of tubular bells hang from a cheap roof-pagoda over the sunny rooftops.   There is a breeze, treetops sway but the bells never
                                    quite
                                                      touch

 

 

 

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blue & Southsea & trees wormhole: pink and blue
breeze wormhole: summertime
red wormhole: Midnight Conference
silence wormhole: burgundy
sky wormhole: morning in / Shrewsbury Park / reading POW comics
windows wormhole: through / the window

 

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