as we share that moment of imagining
lyric in extreme - you fall as I have before
it is admiration in our jealousy
of that we feel but cannot express
with any of the capacity
....
on visiting the new play-centre at the methodist church -
the room has that peculiarity
fresh wood - hamster damp -
mingled emulsion laden
up lit - three coated -
only in the shadows
does the previous exist
in the faint traced lining paper
the stubble of ghosting damp
or the re-plastered ridge
which once marked the relayed pipe
one half expects to see the face of jesus
bleach sooted in a vague form
but perhaps that miracle
awaits in the soldiered toast
of snack-time
....
smallness grows out of iced bun crumbs
reaches over the red-faced suggar-rush
to slide grinning once more
elbows tucked tight - frictionless -
through the nylon net - thumbs raise -
to the cry of awesome
...
it's not raining
a single balckbird sings
at the pool's end - the weir carries -
the excess to the river
and on either side of the rool
two boys duel with water-pistols
their cries laugh
as they spray each other's belly
until the water is spent
when they cry I don't like it
reload
and start again
...
tanning
now is the fallow seeding time
of grasses bending
children with counted ribs
dash random as swifts
their fun frantic as butterfly wings
they stand proud as foxglove trumpets
and the laughter
punctuates like the yellow primrose
rising through the tawning grass
...
and the sun comes out
words emerge from knuckled shadow
where once the pool shimmered sky
now reflected houses ripple
....
one might be in paradise
secluded within this sheltered hollow
with the dash of waterfall
whiting out the traffic
...
peace:)
The Blue Book
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