Lisa Gorton Poems

for Lisa Harms


This is the main gate. Now
like something imagined the Palace lies before you,
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I
A sealed dome of glass where crystals,
by an alchemy ‘more precise than precision', unmake
and make still grottoes that recede
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after the Titanic Artefact Exhibition

I
Patiently, ticket by ticket, a soft-stepped crowd
advances into the mimic ship's hull half-
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‘This morning unexpectedly, sorting through a box of toys, I found that brass bell which stood beside my bed through all that childhood illness,
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I. PRESS RELEASE
To honour the Year of Perfected Vision, in 2020
the PDK-4 Corporation signed up its first
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after Mantegna

I
The trumpeters have gone ahead.
Morning of high, quick clouds -
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