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LETHE AT BRISTOL
Slow sluice water muscle skew Between dark overgrowth towards the sea Near closing time night-sleeper Edinburgh Blonde lights and shadow colonnades in midnight gyre Raw eyes sleepless in overheat limbo lounge Loitering locomotives with reptilian heads The platform trembles diesel shaken tonnes Slowly the train itself a lethe languishes Askew with leaden anger headlight eyes Ferry me then to Jericho millennia ago Ferry me Jerusalem by an iron bridge stone So I may see tomorrow in tonight's eternity Life is a wardrobe of disguises slew Slow sluice sable and austere sleep Your fill drink pale the carriage of synthetic air And wake in granite city gault of morning bare
HUGH HALL

LETHE AT BRISTOL

Slow sluice water muscle skew
Between dark overgrowth towards the sea
Near closing time night-sleeper Edinburgh
Blonde lights and shadow colonnades in midnight gyre
Raw eyes sleepless in overheat limbo lounge
Loitering locomotives with reptilian heads
The platform trembles diesel shaken tonnes
Slowly the train itself a lethe languishes
Askew with leaden anger headlight eyes
Ferry me then to Jericho millennia ago
Ferry me Jerusalem by an iron bridge stone
So I may see tomorrow in tonight's eternity
Life is a wardrobe of disguises slew
Slow sluice sable and austere sleep
Your fill drink pale the carriage of synthetic air
And wake in granite city gault of morning bare

HUGH HALL

from
New Hope International Writing Vol.17 #1

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