tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-50728165739553251232024-03-05T21:31:44.715+00:00Gardening Leavecontact: rockinahill@gmail.com
website: www.jonathanchant.comJonathan Chanthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03647746685252448938noreply@blogger.comBlogger1054125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5072816573955325123.post-69315629863555304552018-11-04T15:24:00.001+00:002018-11-05T18:51:30.752+00:00Monument<div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">
<span style="font-kerning: none;"><i>- Salisbury Cathedral</i></span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-size: large;">Curve of a path, weaves </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-size: large;">through runic conifers set on snow.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-size: large;">Black lamp-posts with swan-like necks, </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-size: large;">lozenges of Lucozade coloured light.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-size: large;">In the cool of the cathedral,</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-size: large;">the horizontal marbled knight,</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-size: large;">stone gauntlets clamped together</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-size: large;">in eternal prayer, the locks of his eyes</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-size: large;">conceal the key to a dream…</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-size: large;">Indigo sky beyond</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-size: large;">where a thousand doves</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-size: large;">freeze in their flight,</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-size: large;">suspended stars in the vaulted heaven.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-size: large;">As you turn to leave, the eyes flicker open.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><i>November 4th, 2018, 3:15pm.</i></span></div>
Jonathan Chanthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03647746685252448938noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5072816573955325123.post-47145211372572497392018-11-02T21:00:00.001+00:002018-11-02T21:01:29.399+00:00Monochrome<div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: Verdana; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">
<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-size: large;">Solid cast, a Gormley statue </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-size: large;">like a wingless angel</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-size: large;">projects a shadow, </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-size: large;">bronze sun, terracotta earth </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-size: large;">onto the wall of the gothic house.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-size: large;">In the garden, black ale lubricates conversation.</span></span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"><i><span style="font-size: large;">Something dies, every time someone says they can’t…</span></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><i>November 2nd, 2018, 9pm.</i></span></div>
Jonathan Chanthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03647746685252448938noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5072816573955325123.post-11771437052139636752018-10-30T14:25:00.000+00:002018-11-02T17:44:06.758+00:00Captains At The Helm Of The Heaven Bound Bridge<div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: Verdana; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">
<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-size: large;">Last turn of October’s broken wheel,</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-size: large;">and in the black house by the water</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-size: large;">gamblers cigars </span></span><span style="font-size: large;">smoulder </span><br />
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-size: large;">whispers of rebellion </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-size: large;">filter through the mesh,</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-size: large;">carmine leaves, pumpkin sun </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-size: large;">meld with the charcoal river</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-size: large;">spectrums of peacock iridescence, </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-size: large;">double star-glint of midnight’s lantern…</span></span></div>
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<i style="font-size: 15px;">October 30th, 2018, 2:15pm.</i><br />
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<i style="font-size: 15px;">With thanks to Poet Red Shuttleworth</i></div>
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Jonathan Chanthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03647746685252448938noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5072816573955325123.post-1055616078018211042018-10-29T18:48:00.001+00:002018-10-29T19:30:13.730+00:00Listening To Egypt Station<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<br />Jonathan Chanthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03647746685252448938noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5072816573955325123.post-47417020749547819572018-10-28T14:21:00.000+00:002018-10-28T14:49:48.199+00:00The Spectacle Quadrille<div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: Verdana; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">
<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-size: large;">In the night </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-size: large;">you roam a mossy forest,</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-size: large;">reach your hand into a hollow,</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-size: large;">dark space between willow roots.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-size: large;">Come up </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-size: large;">with four pairs of glasses </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-size: large;">lenses, frames </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-size: large;">entangled as if in a dance.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-size: large;">You try them on, a pair at a time,</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-size: large;">see clearly, </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-size: large;">all through the mottled morning,</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-size: large;">the dark blotches, </span></span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-size: large;">on the pelt of the horizon.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><i>October 28th, 2018, 2:15pm.</i></span></div>
Jonathan Chanthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03647746685252448938noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5072816573955325123.post-47111108466287850832018-10-24T23:06:00.002+01:002018-10-27T17:31:54.518+01:00Conjurer's Trick<div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: Verdana; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-size: large;">pine incantations as I follow memory prints </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-size: large;">rules broken in this headlong tramp</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-size: large;">bearings lost, primeval unease…</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-size: large;">some kind of statement in the downward glance</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-size: large;">prints like black flames, incense of resin</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-size: large;">a smell like my Great Grandfather’s woodshed</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-size: large;">the tobacco tins and rusty nails</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-size: large;">and at last, dear daughter,</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-size: large;">as we knew it would be,</span></span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-size: large;">a glint of silver beyond the gate</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><i>October 24th, 2018, 11pm.</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><i>(Updated, October 27th)</i></span></div>
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Jonathan Chanthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03647746685252448938noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5072816573955325123.post-85055815983883110092018-10-23T22:28:00.000+01:002018-10-23T22:28:04.042+01:00Wracked With Indecision After Reading Of Your American Exploits<div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: Verdana; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-size: large;">concealed by leaves like elephant ears</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-size: large;">blackberries ripening on brambles.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-size: large;">Plashing of hooves, clamber, </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-size: large;">vanish into foliage on the other shore.</span></span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-size: large;">Some clues scrawled on balled paper</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><i>October 23rd, 2018, 10:30pm.</i></span></div>
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Jonathan Chanthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03647746685252448938noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5072816573955325123.post-46312998772008828662018-10-22T20:31:00.000+01:002018-10-22T20:31:09.008+01:00Wolf Light<div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: Verdana; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">
<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-size: large;">Adrift… I miss your words.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-size: large;">Damp air and cold, </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-size: large;">the plan we hatched</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-size: large;">on the verge of collapse.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-size: large;">Intractable dillema, </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-size: large;">complicated as the interlock,</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-size: large;">green geometries of the monkey puzzle tree.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-size: large;">Blue fires of the kingfisher, wheat ears turn gold</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-size: large;">and every silver cloud has a black lining</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><i>October 22nd, 2018, 8:30pm.</i></span></div>
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Jonathan Chanthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03647746685252448938noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5072816573955325123.post-15868755670882001732018-10-19T21:44:00.001+01:002018-10-19T21:44:57.465+01:00In The Cloud Of Golden Dreams<div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: Verdana; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">
<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-size: large;">Set out, map in my pocket.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-size: large;">All goes awry - right from the bloody off…</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-size: large;">should’ve turned left, the bridge -</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-size: large;">isn’t it supposed to be on the other side?</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-size: large;">In the end I fling it away, trust to intuition </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-size: large;">and <i>really go for a walk - </i></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-size: large;">path high above a river, </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-size: large;">hay field, dust and chaff </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-size: large;">a combine harvester</span></span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-size: large;">lost and found again.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><i>October 19th, 2018, 9:30pm.</i></span></div>
Jonathan Chanthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03647746685252448938noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5072816573955325123.post-5360300276692394602018-10-17T22:37:00.000+01:002018-10-17T22:37:33.995+01:00Ordinance Survey<div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: Verdana; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-size: large;">brass screwed to the beams</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-size: large;">no dreams to report,</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-size: large;">in these weather of the heart explorations -</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-size: large;">a voice in the haze,</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-size: large;">storm in the eye</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-size: large;">contours, arteries, </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-size: large;">motorways blend with the old Roman roads</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-size: large;">and on the carousel of memory</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-size: large;">blue signs spell place names</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-size: large;">from prehistory…</span></span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-size: large;">silver face, piano black hair like a silent film star</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><i>October 17th, 2018, 10:30pm.</i></span></div>
Jonathan Chanthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03647746685252448938noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5072816573955325123.post-36476417209402438322018-10-16T21:47:00.003+01:002018-10-16T21:47:56.832+01:00Cat's Cradle<div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: Verdana; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-size: large;">I stoke embers, hear voices of survivors</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-size: large;">sleep - stockpiles of poems beside my bed.</span></span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-size: large;">Why does your ghost follow me home?</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><i>October 16th, 2018, 9:40pm</i></span></div>
Jonathan Chanthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03647746685252448938noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5072816573955325123.post-65215995463299594892018-10-15T23:00:00.001+01:002018-10-16T17:52:32.386+01:00Antique Emporiums<div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: Verdana; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-size: large;">hugs the ghost of a poet</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-size: large;">mantlepiece china dogs watch over us</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-size: large;">sun and shadow paint our skin</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-size: large;">bric-a-brac of years </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-size: large;">as superstitions resurface… </span></span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-size: large;">haunt the inside your head.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><i>October 15th, 2018, 11pm.</i></span></div>
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Jonathan Chanthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03647746685252448938noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5072816573955325123.post-6196559800006478042018-10-11T23:17:00.001+01:002018-10-15T17:51:25.476+01:00Microcosm<div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: Verdana; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">
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<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-size: large;">Cars converge, the campsite fills, </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-size: large;">buzzard, kite, black oaks - </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-size: large;">flames stoked, conversations blurred</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-size: large;">illusion of sound-insulation</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><i>October 11th, 2018, 11:15pm.</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><i>Thanks to Poet Red Shuttleworth</i></span></div>
Jonathan Chanthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03647746685252448938noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5072816573955325123.post-79267878726077624432018-10-09T18:28:00.000+01:002018-10-09T18:28:38.729+01:00Fleeting Glimpse<div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: Verdana; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">
<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-size: large;">The cut of his jacket gave him away, </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-size: large;">a fleeting figure, curly hair, </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-size: large;">imp, a bit of a jester </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-size: large;">ambling beside the motor car…</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-size: large;">caught in the freeze frame, brief span,</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-size: large;">painstaking, played over and over again</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-size: large;">a click-clack reel-to reel sepia clue </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-size: large;">in the shape of his tie, all the way </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-size: large;">from the orange groves of Seville </span></span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-size: large;">to the salt winds, pale sands of Pendine.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><i>October 9th, 2018, 6:15pm.</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><a href="https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-27557188">https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-27557188</a></span></div>
Jonathan Chanthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03647746685252448938noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5072816573955325123.post-79035798319990460662018-10-03T18:10:00.003+01:002018-10-05T09:49:35.204+01:00Sea Alchemy <div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: Verdana; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">
<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-size: large;">Wolf bone, fang and jaw </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-size: large;">submerged under white sands.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-size: large;">Look at the sea…</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-size: large;">all of that salt water was once grass tundra</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-size: large;">pilgrims could dry foot-it from Gower to Wicklow.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-size: large;">In the Salt House,</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-size: large;">a precious sea-hoard </span></span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-size: large;">stored under lock and key.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><i>3rd October, 2018, 6pm.</i></span></div>
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Jonathan Chanthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03647746685252448938noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5072816573955325123.post-46968059797576171112018-10-01T21:47:00.000+01:002018-10-02T21:01:29.038+01:00Laugharne<div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: Verdana; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">
<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-size: large;">Somewhere south of Carmarthen…</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-size: large;">flip <i>Open</i> signs to <i>Sorry We’re Closed</i>,</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-size: large;">and lock their rainy evening doors.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-size: large;">Inverted triangles of faded red, </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-size: large;">white and green bunting</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-size: large;">entwined along liquorice-string telephone wires.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-size: large;">In the churchyard we search for, find,</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-size: large;">the simple wooden cross, </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-size: large;">white as bone </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-size: large;">on the drizzling hill.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-size: large;">a pink shell, handfuls of coins - </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-size: large;">some silver, others copper.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-size: large;">Caitlin died on your birthday.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-size: large;">A strange connection: same name, same sound </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-size: large;">shaped from different letters.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-size: large;">sealed in a glass cabinet</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-size: large;">four discs of midnight blue,</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-size: large;">a first and last gift, never worn,</span></span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-size: large;">of titanium and sodalite.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><i>1st October, 2018, 9:45pm.</i></span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Outside Dylan Thomas's writing shed, summer 2018. © Su Joy.</td></tr>
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Jonathan Chanthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03647746685252448938noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5072816573955325123.post-381622353987345912018-09-29T18:19:00.001+01:002018-09-29T18:19:41.884+01:00The Poet's Ale<div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: Verdana; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">
<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-size: large;">Forgive me, my love, </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-size: large;">the ghostly wail of the Gower owl </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-size: large;">in the dance, twist of black oaks.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-size: large;">The flail of the dragon’s fiery tail</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-size: large;">the sting, in the brass depths, </span></span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-size: large;">of the poet’s ale.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><i>September 29th, 2018, 6:15pm.</i></span></div>
Jonathan Chanthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03647746685252448938noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5072816573955325123.post-48010590970583203232018-09-24T22:41:00.003+01:002018-09-24T22:41:50.327+01:00Oxwich Bay<div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: Verdana; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">
<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"><i><span style="font-size: large;">Let the patterns, shaping of letters</span></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><i><span style="font-size: large;">be a wedding between heart and pen,</span></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><i><span style="font-size: large;">the calligraphies of blood and ink.</span></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-size: large;">Rothko sky, abstract lines like fire, smudges </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-size: large;">on deep Dante black. Orange lights demarcate</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-size: large;">the farther shore, the wide arms of encircling mountains,</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-size: large;">like the safe hands of a father and the light replicates</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-size: large;">the refinery flame over Port Talbot, the white cylinder,</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-size: large;">blue logo, familiar from the news - TATA steel</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-size: large;">where the reports ignite seventies strike nostalgia</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-size: large;">the tone grim like an engineer’s thumbprint</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-size: large;">on a Tupperware lunch box.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-size: large;">Hotel beer-table umbrellas, khaki</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-size: large;">hexagons, isolated drinkers,</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-size: large;">wooden islands of quiet contemplation</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-size: large;">or perhaps, pure desperation… a feeling</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-size: large;">that something’s always happening</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-size: large;">just around the corner,</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-size: large;">a little further down the road…</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-size: large;">The barmaid - skin, hair, uniform,</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-size: large;">like the pint of Guinness she pours,</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-size: large;">with a smiling face in the foam.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-size: large;">I return home along silent, ghostly lanes, </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-size: large;">white cottages like faces under their thatch</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-size: large;">where you can almost reach</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-size: large;">black moon reflections </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-size: large;">in bedroom windows.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-size: large;">I come to a narrowing of the way, </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-size: large;">the trees reaching as if embracing,</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-size: large;">interlocking branches across the path</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-size: large;">the sound of footsteps in the swing of the lantern’s beam</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><i>24th September, 2018, 10:30pm.</i></span></div>
Jonathan Chanthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03647746685252448938noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5072816573955325123.post-36801763667006771402018-09-22T21:26:00.000+01:002018-09-22T21:26:30.739+01:00Afternoon Into Evening<div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(24, 24, 24); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; background-color: white; color: #181818; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">
<span style="font-kerning: none;"><i>Sit, be still, and listen,</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><i>because you're drunk</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><i>and we're at</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><i>the edge of the roof.</i></span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(24, 24, 24); color: #181818;"><i>― </i></span><span style="font-kerning: none;"><i>Rumi</i></span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-size: large;">They knew how to sit - </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-size: large;">those now long gone old timers</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-size: large;">the rattle of a tea cup, crackle</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-size: large;">from the fire, a newspaper whisper</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-size: large;">cherries, grapes, maybe a peach -</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-size: large;">all wrapped in brown paper. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-size: large;">African violets on the window-sill, </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-size: large;">the ticking of the mantlepiece clock</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-size: large;">a loaf of white bread, </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-size: large;">smear of blood red jam.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-size: large;">Whole afternoons passed like years </span></span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-size: large;">into the centuries of oil-lamp evenings.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><i>22nd September, 2018, 9:30pm.</i></span></div>
Jonathan Chanthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03647746685252448938noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5072816573955325123.post-90084401344660523012018-09-19T20:51:00.000+01:002018-09-19T20:51:25.991+01:00Cordoba <div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: Verdana; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-size: large;">somewhere down in Argentina </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-size: large;">where the cars hang suspended,</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-size: large;">ice-cubes against the sunset.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-size: large;">Passengers hold their breath, listen</span></span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-size: large;">for the almost imperceptible creaking of the wheel.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><i>19th September, 2018, 8:45pm.</i></span></div>
Jonathan Chanthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03647746685252448938noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5072816573955325123.post-42343628914074490092018-09-16T18:33:00.002+01:002018-09-16T18:33:46.635+01:00Sunflowers<div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: Verdana; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">
<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-size: large;">In her two-room shack in the forest</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-size: large;">she burns white sage from Portugal,</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-size: large;">her skin still bronzed in her blue rooms </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-size: large;">by the memory of a mediterranean sun.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-size: large;">As the sage burns, </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-size: large;">the green future slowly unfolds, </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-size: large;">although tomorrow will bring rain </span></span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-size: large;">to her garden of sunflowers.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><i>September 16th, 2018, 6:30pm.</i></span></div>
Jonathan Chanthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03647746685252448938noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5072816573955325123.post-44351356309264902312018-09-15T21:11:00.000+01:002018-09-15T21:11:01.095+01:00Dragon's Drop<div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: Verdana; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">
<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-size: large;">On the seabed - out there… beyond these red sands,</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-size: large;">percolating through shale, the Lower Palaeozoic </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-size: large;">fine grains, crystals, for the naked eye, invisible.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-size: large;">Atoms of aluminium, pebbles of potassium</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-size: large;">seeds of silicon, bubbles of hydrogen</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-size: large;">patterns like braille, read through touch,</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-size: large;">the whorls of the fingertips trace the lines, </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><i><span style="font-size: large;">silent language spins a song </span></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><i><span style="font-size: large;">sung through rain and stone.</span></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-size: large;">In the silence of the snow, </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-size: large;">slopes and angles of white hills</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-size: large;">where trees unfold like smoke, stalks, </span></span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-size: large;">dry and dead in their hollow heads.</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-size: large;">A black scar where a stream flows</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-size: large;">and the man in the grey cloak </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-size: large;">carries ten sticks from the bushel</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-size: large;">strapped to his shoulder</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-size: large;">finds the edge of the flat earth, </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-size: large;">that ends in a dragon’s drop, eternal</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><i>September 15th, 2018, 9pm.</i></span></div>
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Jonathan Chanthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03647746685252448938noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5072816573955325123.post-16596582416178285142018-09-13T19:40:00.000+01:002018-09-13T19:40:07.643+01:00Autofiction<div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">
<span style="font-kerning: none;">Autofictioneers dabble </span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">in first and third-person narratives. </span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">I read three intros, </span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">examples of the genre - in quick succession </span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">and soon notice a common thread: </span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">they have a thing for airplanes, </span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">the leaving of something called <i>it </i>behind </span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">and having chance encounters </span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">with eccentric passengers </span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">before landing in some new, alien place </span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">where the protagonist is offered the opportunity </span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">to sort out their problems, </span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">find themselves and start again. </span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">I’m tempted to have a go myself </span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">except <i>myself </i>will have to become Jonathan </span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">and it’s already a strange business </span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">to see my own name written down on the page </span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">as if I was the main character - </span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">now boarding a plane </span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">which takes a leap of the imagination </span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">having not been on one since the last century. </span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">Anyway, a tunnel leads from the airport lounge </span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">to the moveable stairs attached to a modest sized jet plane </span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">coloured pale green like a peppermint </span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">and a glamour model </span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">air-hostess in red jacket </span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">with gold braids smiles </span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">as if I was the president </span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">and yes, I have to admit, </span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">it is quite good fun </span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">this blurring of fiction </span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">with autobiography. </span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">As soon as we take our seats there’s already a problem: </span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">the doors won’t close because of ice on the cables </span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">and a big machine like a giant’s hairdryer </span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">has to be wheeled over. </span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">It blows hot air onto the cable </span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">until the door can finally be shut. </span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">I suppose, at this point, </span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">having read three accounts </span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">on the same subject this morning </span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">the glamorous air-hostess </span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">will now go through the instructions </span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">of what to do if the plane goes down - </span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">place your head between your knees, </span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">extinguish cigarettes and clamp on the oxygen mask - </span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">that kind of thing although not necessarily in that order </span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">and all the while the hostess maintains her Colgate smile </span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">while my wife, still shaken by the frozen door problem, </span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">downs another vodka which is something, </span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">as far as I know, </span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">she doesn’t normally do at 7:30 in the morning. </span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">When the plane finally tilts skywards </span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">she grips my arm, digs painted nails into my skin. </span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">Jonathan still has the scars to this day.</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><i>September 13th, 2018, 7:30pm.</i></span></div>
Jonathan Chanthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03647746685252448938noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5072816573955325123.post-69092552216830154592018-09-11T18:24:00.000+01:002018-09-11T19:26:55.193+01:00Out There<div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: Verdana; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: justify;">
<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-size: large;">The west wind picks up speed</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-size: large;">windows in the houses</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-size: large;">front and back, skylights too,</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-size: large;">all wide open.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-size: large;">Thoreau sets his furniture</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-size: large;">on the patch of pine outside his cabin,</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-size: large;">the wind changes the dimensions,</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-size: large;">inner and outer no longer certain</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-size: large;">as the breeze reads the books on the shelves </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-size: large;">wanders along walls, flutters curtains.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-size: large;">The keyboard I type on touches the sky,</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-size: large;">and the threshing of trees promises </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-size: large;">there is more to come.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-size: large;">Sun and shadow cease to alternate,</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-size: large;">the day is a mix of green and grey,</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-size: large;">dry leaves that scamper in the yard.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-size: large;">Time to go back out there,</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-size: large;">dig earth</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-size: large;">collect rain</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-size: large;">and leave the heart wide open.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><i>11th September, 2018, 6:15pm.</i></span></div>
Jonathan Chanthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03647746685252448938noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5072816573955325123.post-3527408307339668472018-09-07T20:45:00.000+01:002018-09-07T20:45:18.179+01:00Cloud Drama<div style="font-family: verdana; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: justify;">
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<span style="font-kerning: none; font-size: large;">of spiked leaves, teeth </span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none; font-size: large;">of the sweet chestnut.</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none; font-size: large;">Rumble of thunder, </span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none; font-size: large;">bruised sky in the east.</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none; font-size: large;">A mountain ash rusts </span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none; font-size: large;">and the path dips, </span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none; font-size: large;">tall pines, the shadowy </span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none; font-size: large;">perfume of needles </span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none; font-size: large;">where a bird flickers </span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none; font-size: large;">out of the eye.</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none; font-size: large;">The path curves, </span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none; font-size: large;">turf cropped </span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none; font-size: large;">like a golf course,</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none; font-size: large;">where the red horse </span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none; font-size: large;">still stands sentinel.</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none; font-size: large;">It was there at the beginning, </span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none; font-size: large;">in the scent of the storm -</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none; font-size: large;">in the encroaching cloud drama.</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><i>7th September, 2018, 8:30pm. </i></span></div>
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