Bob Dellar Poems

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1.
The River Between The Bridges

Between two bridges I fish
The Stour in winter.
The river is traumatised and
Skittish after rain three days solid,
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2.
Goodbye Robert

I chucked your soap on a rope
over the back fence onto the
Liverpool Street Line, at a train actually,
but missed, my arms too short for a serious lob;
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3.
Jarred`s Daughter

Your wife wants:

this time it`s chickens.
So you winged a coop from wood and wire
for her birthday. You found a supplier
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4.
After

In the process of clearing out
my dad`s ramshackle shed-
(after he died of drink and general self-neglect;
I unlock a dark-wooded looming
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5.
Grave Thoughts

I pass a graveyard late at night,
moonlight playing on the headstones.
Their shadows dark hooked fingers
that claw at the ground;
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6.
High Up

I`m so high up,
that when my
brother shouts
I hear
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7.
Hedge Layer-Gap Mender

Hedge layer, gap-mender
forged from frost and fissured trees;
your split hazel brash,
a white slash against
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8.
Southwold Sunset

Sizewell`s exploded, you said
as the dying sun
grows immense in your eyes,
and gulls collide
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