James Munro Poems

Anna gave me a painting of two trees
(thinking, I guessed, of Kahlil Gibran's image
of marriage, two trees growing together,
swaying and blowing together in the wind,
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We were born the same year,
John Lennon and I.

He drank his beer
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Eliot preferred the world of
Virgil, I the world of Homer,
which is why he settled in London,
why I chose to be a roamer:
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I amble down
into the bay
before the heat
before the day
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Sometimes I sit here ithyphallic,
god of the beasts.
The flies attend
and tortoises when in the mood
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