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Poems

‘Praying with Christopher Smart’ a poem by Peter Steele

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'The Time Machine', a poem by Stephen Edgar ... (read more)
'Doo Town', a poem by Paul Kane ... (read more)
'Coppers', a poem by Kevin Gillam ... (read more)

'Circle of Fifths', a new poem by John Hawke

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Again, death rolled towards / my daughter and me. Again / its grim, slow prowl and sudden / bulk. Again, human misery / veered from its lane.

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This place we live is termed ‘rural’ / or ‘countryside’ by arrangement / with or of the planters of grains, / the breeders of animals for / slaughter, by conservative vote.

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not quite meandering chi luck / more like vermillion songbirds than orange / figure / maybe nine months postpartum ...

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(A fugue in words inspired by a shipwreck at Vanikoro)

 

They

should have known

the blood-red coral

would look for props –

fallen men, upturned ships

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