Roger elkin Biography

there:
a rising nearness, a beacon
its blueness a raggy topknot mix
of indigo, azure and violet
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</>Alderley Woods, November the First

i.m. Howard Sergeant
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Because she aspired to higher things
than other’s uprights, my mother, while Dad’s wealth
held, clung to a Bechstein babygrand –
a black-lacquered toad with sinister grin that squatted
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Most of the time he’s alone, up at the clouds’
edge, fingering the rigging of the hills as he threads
together the fields’ reticulated setts.
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are October imposters posing as stones;
masqueraders parading their polished exteriors;
nests of pebbles lying below boles of oaks
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