Alison Croggon Poems

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11.
It Is Easy To Forget Me

it is easy to forget me
I am a cloud in the corner of your eye
that vanishes in your direct gaze
when the rain comes
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12.
Homage To Mr. Pound

victory sweetened not your crimes
you lived enough lives to witness
the betrayal of beauty
which was difficult
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13.
Love: After The Triumph Of Death

Love may not exist, it may be
only a word, it may do nothing
useful. To erase love
is easy, it forgets itself, its weapons
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14.
A History Of Rain

I marvelled at the squid’s mantel,
The sloth’s curled hook,
The magenta lips of orchids.
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15.
I Will Stop Writing

I will stop writing and walk out, and in the clamour of commerce I will consider the value of truth.
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16.
Good Friday

it was the sound of a bird
startled from sleep its wings hurting the air

it was a sound like shame
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17.
Sonnet: Thoreau In Chernobyl

The woods were beautiful as always, but dry.
It seemed a subtle poison at the roots
drained them imperceptibly of life.
A want, or heightened colour, in each leaf
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18.
What I Am Saying

what I am saying is
assuming nothing
locate the perameters
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19.
Nocturne

gently we are saved:
your body formed
from bodies so long grieved
by mine is warmed
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20.
On The Death Of God

In the age of barbed wire, they announced the death of God. Great men traced the flyspots on ancient walls and studied the mutations of stars. Never before was so much knowledge gathered together.
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