Brian Taylor Poems

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91.
Ancient Mariner To Clerk

There is no excuse for wearing
a collar that nips the skin,
not much excuse for sharing
the carriage they squeeze you in,
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92.
The Season

The season slides
to wind and showers
and sharp hot sun
(for rare half-hours)
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93.
Spring

This springtide was not something
to excite the senses
but an overflowing of the heart.
Pure joy.
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94.
Survivors And Inheritors

Caves, like palaces,
hotels, churches
(and shoes) ,
outlive their tenants.
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95.
Weekend People

Though the weekend people
leave it all behind,
when they sit down quietly
it’s all there in their mind.
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96.
Normal

Pain is in proportion to livingness.
The more alive you are,
the more it hurts
to live.
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97.
Gurdjieff

“You are both a wolf
and a lamb.
If you do not stay awake
the wolf will devour
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98.
Here

NOW
runs like a crack
through the universe.
Through it
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99.
Yes

Meanwhile I have been:

cutting back brambles
where they clutch at the passing skin;
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100.
Open Asylum

Here the lunatics are free.
They walk the streets confined
within their minds,
and peer out through the blinds
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