Anthony Marriner Poems

I don’t see myself in this.
Waiting for the cloud to part,
for my illumination to begin.
When I’m warm I grasp it, mania ensues.
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'It does START in the head
but it's in the gut where it gets you
A bourbon tang
DESIRE doesn't do it justice
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Warm and dry Californian sky-
That first Spanish taste in Angeles’ glare
No zephyr to purge Downtown’s shadow.
Freed from the Valley’s crucible
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Framed in celluloid
for the crime too;
the offence
of selling an ideal,
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