After Industry
By adam
Poems written between 2009 and 2011
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Destroying the book
A sharp knife completes the job scholars strained at,
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A rage in London
A poetic response to last week's riotign in the UK.
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August 1914
One fragile moment from a lost summer,
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Black Cat.
Familiar in the twilight,
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Container
Columbus and his kind Ambition shrunk Like the globe they spanned
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Photograph.
Our trinity, drawn By light the summer My life began and yours changed,
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Sudden Storm
Coming on suddenly, the storm Changes a dowdy street,
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The Closed Line
Under the traffic two threads merge in a memory of speed,
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To a discarded plastic bag
Caught amongst branches, A rattling Prisoner of the wind
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Light Pollution
The earth’s tight curve wears a neon halo...
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Seed
Seeing the flowers in their cracked vase I think suddenly about time,
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Intimation
In the silence of the museum the skeleton’s curious jigsaw waits under glass,
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Satellite
One light drowning in darkness,
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Holiday
Standing in the departure hall I call the tower for clearance, Fly back thirty years to land Running barefoot on wet sand
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Ward 71
Close packed like lumber they lie, Each bed a fairground car
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Group Photograph
Eight of us stood together In the year’s first sun,
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Some thoughts on reincarnation
Were I to come this way again I’d like to return as a pig,
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Work in progress
Hands sowed this land with work, Those of peasants bound to sandy soil,
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Night Rain
After dark, rain soaks suburbia,
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Fishers of Men
Fishers of Men Two evangelists on my bus, Wearing starched shirts, holding Their bibles like shields, asking Can we talk about GOD? Probably not the...
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Accident
Lights painting a bruised Dusk, We who pause, watching Are shown the only Truth worth knowing, That all lives become Accidents; The issue is when...
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Autumn
There’ll be no harvest come August, Bugles called the yeomen To work other fields, At the hiring fair Boys and men, ashen faced; Go to a new service...
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A city is a carpet of lights
A city is a carpet of lights, Each one, a sun orbited by a galaxy of lives Unknown; unknowable, events unfolding beyond different horizons May, 2014.
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Desire Path
Behind the houses winding; snake-like through forgotten places, The spirit of going, free from taming ideas of arrival A path into haunted woods,...
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Like a tide, traffic
Like a tide, traffic brims at the junction, Cars, different as snowflakes Held in fragile unity, At the change; breaking, becoming drops Running,...
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Visiting
The crowd comes at dusk From places that are known To here that is nowhere, Standing dumbly wondering At an end or beginning, Their lives all hold...
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Iron Harvest
Under winter skies earth gives up the memory of pain; Who would have thought so little could undo so many; Death in a handful of casings This is how...
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Vigil
Hour strung against hour Your life unravelled, Breath became wind, blowing Over deserts fused into glass; Heartbeat turned to Morse Broadcast from...
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A moment of clarity
A moment of clarity In the bar heads tilt backwards, Skulls grinning laughter at worn out jokes, Relaxing, my face fits back its mask, This is a...
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Stump
In green solitude, nature's castle laid open; The end attached to all beginnings; The seed tracks back to zero, Through loam dominion dwindles, First...
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Strawberry
Strawberry In the ward garden, one strawberry Red,perfect; picked By a woman life blew asunder, The spoils of the finder, here Quartered between...
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Poem for August 6th
Open skies are deceptive, Their bland innocence hides The falling speck; becoming A scar decades raw. Under the same sky A new world slumbers, Blooms...
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Solitary
Solitary Waking to darkness, The bridge back from alone Youth used to cross easily Age has washed away Peace grudgingly kept, Between all you never...
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The Torturer's Horse
The Torturer's Horse They got me wrong, Those long haired poets hunting Always for tidy metaphors, There was no allegory hiding In the heat making me...
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Farming Tomorrow
No fickle sun warms unfurling leaves, A slow ballet danced To the din of tomorrow Coming into its kingdom, On silicone hills under electric skies...
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Please Clarify Your Instructions
Please Clarify Your Instructions Please clarify your instructions The system demands answers, Sees only in monochrome Avoiding grey areas, poetry,...
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A Murmeration.
A Murmeration. Above stark fields, turning as one small lives in unison, A pattern, wonder enough to see, still more to think on, Surely evidence a...
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Blast
Blast . Years, the shell slept In earth bought with blood. Long enough to forget Munitions girls, flirting with boys A King Emperor sent to fight His...
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