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LETHE AT BRISTOL |
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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 Next poem Previous poem |
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