Ken Smith Poems

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1.
The Secret Police

They are listening in the wires,
in the walls, under the eaves
in the wings of house martins,
in the ears of old women,
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2.
Fast Forward

one thing then another

one story then another conversation
always interrupted by another conversation
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3.
Possessions

They spent my life plotting against me.
With nothing to do but cultivate themselves,
but to be there, aligning their shadows,
they were planning to undo me,
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4.
Duck At Haldon Ponds

At evening watches the duck
slow feeding the waterline.

Praises the duck. Such a fine
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5.
Train

After Max Ernst's 'Europe after the Rain'

In the dark
each sits alone
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6.
In The Next Street

there’s only ever one argument: his,
bawling out whoever punctuates
the brief intervals his cussing
| interrupts, something unheard, reason perhaps.
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7.
Encounter At St. Martin's

I tell a wanderer's tale, the same
I began long ago, a boy in a barn,
I am always lost in it. THe place
is always strange to me. In my pocket
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8.
The Window Of Vulnerability

Sure today it could come in a fast plane
named perhaps for the pilot's mother,
the city ends in a smear in the road
and that in a child's shoe. No one
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