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one day
one day
one day i shall
leave all this
the kitchen
and the rivers
the room of
the heart
with its
bright rain
earthquakes
sky of a sun
under blue
one day
i shall be lost
amongst the
rains the
cold from
the clouds
shall be broken
through with
the wind
like
a
sheet of
newspaper
driven onto
a winter
branch
a
dry blown
leaf under
the shoe of
evening breaking
into the stories
of its childhood
in final telling
apart apart
a
wave
come to its
shore gone
out down
between the
grains of
glass and sand
pulled back
into the
leaving
tide
a
new
moon
with its
spill of
dusk
touching on
the westerly
hedge sinking
down amongst
twig
leaf and
nest
a
word
put away
years a
grammar
out of date
used in an
old room
where the
poems had
walking sticks
sipped tea
from
clanking
cups
i
could go
on in this
style
of
curtains
glass panes
looking out
to a field
of frost
all night
yet
desist
one day i shall
leave all this
the kitchen
and the rivers
december 2011
beijing
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Comment by Peter Le Baige on February 5, 2012 at 19:10 -
Caro Marco, mille grazie. To me this shows the influence di lavori di Prisco e Curtin. For brevity and language freshness you two stand a twin peak to aim at :-)
I thought 'i could go/on in this/style' but in fact the muse closed her mouth at that point (annoyed with my 'hubris', no doubt)
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Comment by mark thomas prisco on February 5, 2012 at 9:57 -
This is better than i can say. Just read it twice now. Seems flawless to me. I love the moon with its spill of dusk, and the stanza that ends with the clanking cups. But all of it: one day all the way to the rivers.
"i
could go
on in this
style" ?
Yes, do that.
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Comment by Peter Le Baige on February 4, 2012 at 17:16
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Thanks fellow poets. I can only say that, as you probably feel, when someone likes something you've done, you feel it's all worthwhile, however hard it is to make the time in your own life to write. I enjoy both your work, so it's all the better hearing from you.
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Comment by Aaron Compton on February 3, 2012 at 22:07 -
if only there was a 'like' button here--I have no constructive criticism I just like your stuff. If only there was a 'good shit' button
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Comment by Wanda on February 3, 2012 at 21:39 -
I love this..it makes me want to find a quiet place and quietly review my life - wonderful write and read Peter..
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