Richard George Poems

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71.
Hand I Shall Not Lay

Glamis. An inheritance
of sadness unearths her eyes,
a burden of hurt generations of women
she carries well.
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72.
Horse Mushroom

Earth to earth fruit
in the grave-grass, my
Siren to gather.
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73.
The Philosopher's Blind Spot

People walked away,
sometimes ran away, but the white goose
shadowed him, and hissed off
drunken poets enraged by Plato's Republic.
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74.
Mr.Owl And Chucky

The Jewish single Mom in Arizona
told Joan, her daughter,
to watch for javelinas
(the piggy things with teeth)
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75.
Threnody For Claris Macintosh

My confidante is dying,
my memory of ten years:
she has only a week to live
and her software is obsolete
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76.
The Vernal Gallery

Tangles of verdure
under Scandinavian
teal-blue chill of sky:
virginal, viridian,
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77.
1982

My lowest ebb, that winter:
Breathing, tasting minus centigrade
I studied the sky's silent score.
I scoured the barren quarter
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78.
Diuturnity's Bite

On Thameslink home from Brighton
where I'd spent the day waiting
for the roar of grey to turn to gold
and silence, like an alchemist,
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79.
Iris Murdoch And The Inanimate

'Thrown away'. I sense
one degree of your kindness
encompassing all
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80.
The Nightingale

Once, just once, I heard it;
That warm night in April
When it landed, on migration
In oak woods across the fields
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