jim hogg Poems

I pictured vast arrangements in
the depths beyond this planet's sky
I saw the multitude of things
that hurtle, spin, begin and die;
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I'm riding in the shallows here
Waiting for the wave
I'm dancing on the gallows tree
Just waiting for the day
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A girl with hair like yours
Was standing on the bus
She hurled me back into
A sudden swirl of us
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That summer was a brown eyed girl who knew nothing but her heart

We stumbled through the vows we’d made into each other’s arms
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The snowflakes sit like little mountains
On the branches of the trees
By the harbour there the fountain
It must be icebound in this freeze
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We started sometime yesterday
shooting arrows in the sea
counting stars and making hay
Taming truth and electricity.
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No rings or vows, no settling down,
Not on the cheating side of town
We took that short and winding road
Up through the trees where no-one goes
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Lord knows it's not for money now
She turns out and she sings and smiles
As if the sun stopped going down
And still they're standing in the aisles
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There is a green hill by the sheer
and final choice that overlooks
assaulting age and edges near;
a certain view I’m tending to.
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I saw you in a magazine
Pouring tea for the elderly
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