How well the old sits with the new,
Giving what is minimal
An interest and theme;
A neutral canvas
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Curving now
And moving fast,
The wave rolls higher than the dead of war.
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Lorimer's monument
Punctuates ‘The Lines'.His
Upturned exclamation
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The earth, played out, seems forged with fear,
It bristles, stiffens, slowly fades
With introspection. Through the blear,
In our unease we move, bowed heads;
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Shades are deeper here, less
Subtle than Aldeburgh;
This murky northern coast.
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Here in Lake Havasu, it seemed strange,
The two of us strolling over London Bridge;
That Mary Poppins skyline long erased.
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Thunder!
Purring like a thirty-two;
Storm-clouds,
Sagging, humourless and bleak;
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Silent until opened,
Perhaps more softly spoken than we thought,
Or loud, somewhat aggressive,
Uncompromised and unapologetic.
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little light… shining… her soft voice pleads… each piano shard cold and biting
dark October races by… out there a distant light ignites her words
this school exchange… we take the night train… Moscow to St. Petersburg
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Our brooding, blue-grey visage slowly moves.
Below us, telegraphs, whose bronze wires thread
Their pensive silence, stitched from pole to pole,
Await the tickle conversation makes;
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