Lapwing, The Cresting Wave and Solid World


Two poems published in Upstairs at Duroc No. 8


Lapwing

Flying flying over flying the raw green
quaggy fields and muck-clogged ditches,
the hardened trees pulsing out of the
choked off sky...


The Cresting Wave

They stood by the jeweller's window
and watched a cresting wave of blue
pass up and down a tank of ticking watches...




And a translation of Monde Solide (Solid World) by Pierre Dehaye

Undetectable doors, half open in the walls
The world shivers at the wind's own crossroad
Sudden breaths that lighten the heart's load
Until it's like a floating seed, too pure to fall...


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