i had forgotten / how quiet evening can be / how a good old place / can have spreading trees that wait / in patience for night, for day / at peace with time and the earth
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shiny range rover / can’t park it. can’t keep a lane / go back to the burbs
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clash of katydids / barefoot on the dew lush grass / the bright watching stars
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the wild dark waters / the vast uncharted oceans / sail from the firm shore / to the world’s end and there find / the dragons of poetry
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before the painting / hips posed, hair luxuriant / look at me instead
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a puddle glistens / empty beer kegs bang and clank / the aproned man yawns
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sad lambent at peace / deep in the shadowy gloom / the old master’s face
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all these failed machines / these poems like butterflies / built from scrap metal / by incompetent robots / wings clanking on barren ground
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church bells and mopeds / sing for the azure twilight / sea gulls then silence
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foul glittering streets / once beautiful souls all made / ugly by money
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