Science lesson

Tags

'scape, 2013, 4*, blue, branches, brown, emergence, Roan School for Boys, sky, windows

 

 

 

                                          Science lesson

                                          the brass tap of the gas
                                          outlet the earthenware
                                          brown of the rubber tube
                                          connection the blue flame
                                          within the Bunsen burner
                                          but through the wide
                                          window so many new
                                          reaches of the silhouette
                                          branches into the
                                          sapphire blue sky

 

 

 

^{————w}(O)rmholes_________________________________|—–
blue sky & sky 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
branches & windows wormhole: train journey
brown wormhole: grammar
emergence wormhole: school uniform
Roan school wormhole: ‘the importance of …’

 

school uniform

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'scape, 2013, 6*, blue, emergence, grass, green, Greenwich Park, grey, oak, red, Roan School for Boys, sky, stone, windows

 

 

 

                           school uniform

                      grass too deep and green
                           to consider colour
                      stick to the tarmac grey
                           and blue to the step
                      and redbrick and flint stone
                           high to the window
                      small and greensky to reflect
                           and then

                      some boys by the ancient oak
                           have found a
                      natural high crouch and count
                           to twenty jump up
                      and someone pulls you tight around
                           the solar plexus
                      prolonged drift before blackout

 

 

 

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blue sky & emergence & green & grey & oak & Roan school & sky wormhole: grammar
grass wormhole: the Batline Life-line
Greenwich Park wormhole: ‘the importance of …’
red wormhole: celebrate
stone wormhole: wakey wakey / time to get up
windows wormhole: Leicester

 

grammar

Tags

'scape, 2013, 5*, blue, books, brown, elm, emergence, gold, green, Greenwich Park, grey, history, lifetimes, London, oak, Roan School for Boys, sky, time

 

 

 

                           deep into the thinnest pages
                           soft as clean-cut sheets opened
                           either side stepped gently to
                           easy at-ten-tion typeface slightly
                           Edwardian-fine disciplined and
                           careers-old always supported by
                           slightly rubbled covers maybe
                           green maybe blue maybe
                           brown and embossed title
                           and publisher’s crest

                           tireless examples of grammar
                           with locating particularities which
                           only knit into a texture of
                           communication when gazing out
                           through the window at the
                           oaks and elms of Greenwich Park
                           and the deep grey skies over London

 

 

 

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blue sky wormhole: morning
books wormhole: OK
brown wormhole: celebrate
emergence wormhole: 1976
gold wormhole: grey air
green wormhole: man of tomorrow
grey wormhole: Leicester
history wormhole: brave new world?
lifetimes & time wormhole: possible
London wormhole: mlewis diptych
oak wormhole: Eglinton Hill
Roan school wormhole: dream / career / 040712
sky wormhole: A206 / Plumstead Road: / perched on a wall

 

dream / career / 040712

Tags

2012, 5*, Allen Ginsberg, being, career, doing, dream, Roan School for Boys, teaching, William Carlos Williams

 

 

 

                             dream
                             career
                             040712

       it was my turn to deliver the talk
       the presentation I had been working on all this time
       in a newly opened room with a stage and raised seating
       a performance room a lecture room the way of the future
       for Roan School back in the 1970s

       it was my turn to deliver
       I had been one of the students
       I had been one of the Young Men
       I had spent a long time preparing
       but I had done it with craft and care and honesty
       pencilled blocks of ideas and summary points
       scattered on different-sized bits of paper and card

       I didn’t really need the notes

       my long period of exploration and work
       had left me with a simple topic
       I started talking about Allen Ginsberg
       and had soon spent a long time already on
       William Carlos Williams a major influence

       the audience didn’t really want to listen
       but listened because they were supposed to
                 – my turn –
       I could slightly feel that I was holding
       less and less people’s attention
       (the way I do after my lessons start at school)

       there were one or two technicians moving around
       then an administrator and some men in dark polo shirts
       moving equipment making it difficult for the audience to focus anyway
       there were more and more support workers getting on with something else
       the audience started chatting among themselves quietly
       eventually there were as many workers as audience
       setting something up in preparation need to get everything right
       as ‘there was an audience for this’
       some of my audience were leaving thinking it had all finished
       and all the while I continued delivering my clever and careful construction

       eventually I allowed myself to realise
       that no one was listening anymore
       the preparation for the next event
       had completely swallowed the event which was my presentation
       mid-sentence I just stopped
       gathered up my papers
       and wandered out of the dream

       no one noticed that I had stopped

 

 

 

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Allen Ginsberg wormhole: 1958
being wormhole: ‘I should never want for something to write …’
career wormhole: poessay I
doing wormhole: the / Four Noble Truths / on a train
dream wormhole: a written life
teaching wormhole: plaintive // plaintiff? // but not precious

William Carlos Williams wormhole: William Carlos Williams