tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-332670872024-03-14T08:38:55.921+13:00brickstack blockstackpoetry by steve parkerStevehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16949323084007432054noreply@blogger.comBlogger1515125truetag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33267087.post-22544675053936619582020-12-26T18:59:00.003+14:002020-12-26T18:59:52.848+14:00even now<p> nothing, you think it's nothing</p><p>just another idiot in the unfortunate wash cycle</p><p>gone by, past, over like an annoying parrot</p><p>dead in its cage at dawn</p><p>crushed by the planes</p><p>your instincts may be partly right</p><p>to close it down, shut it off<br />stifle it, kill it forever</p><p>just another stupid passer-by</p><p>walking down the same road forever</p><p>with you never at the end of it</p><p>this is my mathematics</p><p>my calculus</p><p>starting with such factors</p><p>always resulting in zero</p><p>always so filled with the memory</p><p>of the starting</p><p>of the world sometimes so full</p><p>of empty promise</p><p>.</p>Stevehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16949323084007432054noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33267087.post-29349845747205141452020-11-16T06:48:00.003+14:002020-12-22T20:44:50.240+14:00aeroplane of what we were<p><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="background-color: #f0f2f5; color: #050505; font-size: 15px;">Call me Aeroplane (for CF)</span></span></p><p><span style="background-color: #f0f2f5; color: #050505; font-family: arial; font-size: 15px;">holder of the world altitude record for humans</span></p><div class="kvgmc6g5 cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql" style="background-color: #f0f2f5; color: #050505; font-size: 15px; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><div dir="auto"><span style="font-family: arial;">higher than the highest-flying birds</span></div><div dir="auto"><span style="font-family: arial;">I look down upon vultures and geese</span></div><div dir="auto"><span style="font-family: arial;">lowly in the jetstream</span></div></div><div class="o9v6fnle cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql" style="background-color: #f0f2f5; color: #050505; font-size: 15px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><div dir="auto"><span style="font-family: arial;">from this height</span></div><div dir="auto"><span style="font-family: arial;">my eye a satellite, a lens, the all-seeing</span></div><div dir="auto"><span style="font-family: arial;">iris of a spiralling raptor</span></div><div dir="auto"><span style="font-family: arial;">I see your lengthening shadow</span></div><div dir="auto"><span style="font-family: arial;">retreat from the stone wells</span></div><div dir="auto"><span style="font-family: arial;">sacred to Bedouins and desert travellers</span></div><div dir="auto"><span style="font-family: arial;">strewn about with ribbons</span></div><div dir="auto"><span style="font-family: arial;">grown weary with calling</span></div><div dir="auto"><span style="font-family: arial;">to your deep reflection</span></div><div dir="auto"><span style="font-family: arial;">to your loss</span></div><div dir="auto"><span style="font-family: arial;">like some great catch</span></div><div dir="auto"><span style="font-family: arial;">in the throat</span></div><div dir="auto"><span style="font-family: arial;">like grief, like wind, like a cry</span></div><div dir="auto"><span style="font-family: arial;">which echoes upon high</span></div><div dir="auto"><span style="font-family: arial;">knowing now</span></div><div dir="auto"><span style="font-family: arial;">that I can never land again</span></div></div><div class="o9v6fnle cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql" style="background-color: #f0f2f5; color: #050505; font-size: 15px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><div dir="auto"><span style="font-family: arial;">sick with height</span></div><div dir="auto"><span style="font-family: arial;">call me Aeroplane</span></div></div>Stevehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16949323084007432054noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33267087.post-31706957589194008072020-10-27T16:44:00.000+14:002020-10-27T16:44:15.907+14:00<p>My poetry is dying from the waist down. One has to deal with this somehow. Here's a picture of me blowing an imaginary trumpet on the Bowder Stone:<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-tAxOw_GjvqY/X5eJY6lW6AI/AAAAAAAABGE/fMmwfI_WTigKYuJedZ3I8QDkCAu3-miWACLcBGAsYHQ/s2048/DSC00700.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1536" data-original-width="2048" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-tAxOw_GjvqY/X5eJY6lW6AI/AAAAAAAABGE/fMmwfI_WTigKYuJedZ3I8QDkCAu3-miWACLcBGAsYHQ/s320/DSC00700.JPG" width="320" /></a></div><br />Stevehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16949323084007432054noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33267087.post-60749753694561952262020-10-27T16:35:00.000+14:002020-10-27T16:35:34.370+14:00Some Fairies in Blue Scoots<p>ONE DAY some Fairies from outside became</p><p>in Blue Scoots to peel off the Wallpaper tear down</p><p>the Lights unwire everything even everyone's Hearts</p><p>in clouds of hacking plaster dust and the Fay Fury of our</p><p>Organs of lead</p><p>unplugged on the wet Pavements outside</p><p>shivered the Rain began to rise-oh</p><p>what have we done but then the Windows and O </p><p>the Bells began the Bats and Rats</p><p>have you ever seen this?</p><p>in Startles of scooting blue Arrivals began </p><p>in such strange Gaits we parted from the Scene</p><p>again in the Flurries </p><p><br /></p><p>(think again of love and what)</p><p><br /></p><p>our little scaredy Hearts </p><p>might beg for unfairying so they might and what</p><p>of it now for surely?</p><p>.</p>Stevehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16949323084007432054noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33267087.post-40950104510837640622020-10-24T00:59:00.002+14:002020-10-24T00:59:34.760+14:00Mr Trump on Sunday<p>attached at either end to hoses and pumps</p><p>in accordance with the terms of his punishment</p><p>like a great wilted thing slowly forcing itself</p><p>into life motivated by some primal need for fodder</p><p>Mister Trump inflates, his puckers evening and</p><p>ironing out, his cellulite smoothing, his face</p><p>taking on a forced fat smile; he rises, unsteadily</p><p>shaking, quivering and pink, naked, foolish,</p><p>regretful at last; he ascends over the rooftops</p><p>like the vast rear end of a fattened autumnal hog</p><p>propelled by uncertain farts; higher he climbs,</p><p>observed by all viewers everywhere, as children with bows</p><p>and arrows with suckers and pea-shooters</p><p>attempt to knock him down like a blimp filled</p><p>with gas that may just ignite and crash </p><p>upon the grass amongst the cats and sandwiches</p><p>to scare the spectators, each of whom </p><p>has paid a heck-of-a-lot of money to be here </p><p>each of whom is a little scared of what might </p><p>happen next; but all that happens is his grin</p><p>gets bigger; his bottom balloons out into the clouds</p><p>and he drifts away to take his place upon high</p><p>in the starry pantheon of people we no longer</p><p>give even half a shit about, but would still like</p><p>to see die in our heart of hearts</p><p>.</p>Stevehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16949323084007432054noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33267087.post-4479620429961181972020-10-17T19:28:00.001+14:002020-10-17T19:28:41.927+14:00<p> <span style="background-color: #f0f2f5; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;">the vastness</span></p><div dir="auto" style="background-color: #f0f2f5; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;">of what we cannot be</div><div dir="auto" style="background-color: #f0f2f5; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;">stretches before us</div>Stevehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16949323084007432054noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33267087.post-35938471874799251632020-10-15T05:18:00.000+14:002020-10-15T05:18:01.918+14:00<p> <span style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 24px;">for my first few seconds</span></p><p><span style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 24px;">every morning</span></p><span style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 24px;">you are still alive</span>Stevehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16949323084007432054noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33267087.post-68156246570797896012020-10-14T23:06:00.001+14:002020-10-14T23:06:36.758+14:00<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-udNxSpks1g0/X4a_jUaz2cI/AAAAAAAABF0/vhWOmKvIi78oUPoESF9wd3eeA4a0mTo1QCLcBGAsYHQ/s960/95734493_10222757090700994_2394207992779112448_o.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="720" data-original-width="960" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-udNxSpks1g0/X4a_jUaz2cI/AAAAAAAABF0/vhWOmKvIi78oUPoESF9wd3eeA4a0mTo1QCLcBGAsYHQ/s320/95734493_10222757090700994_2394207992779112448_o.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /> <p></p>Stevehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16949323084007432054noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33267087.post-1885790112339934962020-10-14T23:02:00.004+14:002020-10-14T23:02:48.336+14:00<p style="text-align: left;"> <span style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap;">these huge ferns </span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap;">at the riverside</span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; text-align: left; white-space: pre-wrap;">how vigorous, how vivid<br />how ancient in their ratio<br />just waiting for us<br />to fuck off</p><p style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; text-align: left; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; text-align: left; white-space: pre-wrap;">.</p>Stevehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16949323084007432054noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33267087.post-22795273541105027832020-10-14T22:57:00.004+14:002020-10-14T22:57:54.946+14:00<span style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 24px;">do not for one moment</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 24px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 24px;">let your heart stop</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 24px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 24px;">for there are miracles yet</span><div><span style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 24px;">to endure</span> </div><div><br /></div><div>.</div>Stevehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16949323084007432054noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33267087.post-20206433988529309772020-10-14T22:39:00.001+14:002020-10-14T22:39:24.000+14:00<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-tB1lfeq90k4/X4a5I-HhrFI/AAAAAAAABFo/lOL9OIdVmwUxzHwJnQRAoAYGFCvWZGhmACLcBGAsYHQ/s960/98603427_268878021163023_173420016224436224_o.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="960" data-original-width="720" height="320" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-tB1lfeq90k4/X4a5I-HhrFI/AAAAAAAABFo/lOL9OIdVmwUxzHwJnQRAoAYGFCvWZGhmACLcBGAsYHQ/s320/98603427_268878021163023_173420016224436224_o.jpg" /></a></div><br /> <p></p>Stevehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16949323084007432054noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33267087.post-72138964332098513252020-09-29T11:03:00.001+14:002020-09-29T11:03:31.341+14:00<p> <span style="background-color: #f0f2f5; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;">Deadness all the way. No empathy or human feeling beyond raw reptilian appetite. Oh, and maybe a cold, dead fury. He's very dangerous.</span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-L33g5uIfgME/X3JPlBnf8jI/AAAAAAAABFc/8YZuYCmoWaY2pSfUCwa0uW-kaSGtbMC2QCLcBGAsYHQ/s496/Trump%2527s%2Beyes.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="282" data-original-width="496" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-L33g5uIfgME/X3JPlBnf8jI/AAAAAAAABFc/8YZuYCmoWaY2pSfUCwa0uW-kaSGtbMC2QCLcBGAsYHQ/s320/Trump%2527s%2Beyes.png" width="320" /></a></div><br /><br /><br /><br /><p></p>Stevehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16949323084007432054noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33267087.post-62245911044446853892020-09-29T02:37:00.000+14:002020-09-29T02:37:50.773+14:00<p style="text-align: left;"> in the autumn floods </p><p style="text-align: left;">yellow-white turnips</p><p style="text-align: left;">bob like skulls</p>Stevehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16949323084007432054noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33267087.post-1279510007322289232020-08-02T14:18:00.002+13:002020-08-02T14:18:54.929+13:00rope swing<span style="background-color: white; color: #1c1e21; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">all night long the beck</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #1c1e21; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #1c1e21; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">the river, the stream</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #1c1e21; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #1c1e21; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">forever</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #1c1e21; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #1c1e21; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">the dark, the bright light</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #1c1e21; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #1c1e21; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">the rush, the rope</span><span class="text_exposed_show" style="background-color: white; color: #1c1e21; display: inline; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"><br />the parapet, the jump<br />the rocks the death the ripples<br />on and on<br />Alfie says get that rope down<br />I believe in him<br />I saw him first emerge<br />and we swing again<br />but only I will swing that close<br />to the huge drop<br />into the river and its black flood<br />that's my job, isn't it<br />to risk death always<br />with such love<br />that they can be scared<br />of nothing?</span>Stevehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16949323084007432054noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33267087.post-62200168266853624732020-07-29T05:35:00.002+13:002020-07-29T05:35:37.301+13:00<span style="background-color: #f2f3f5; color: #1c1e21; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">.</span><br />
<span style="background-color: #f2f3f5; color: #1c1e21; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">a black and white</span><br style="background-color: #f2f3f5; color: #1c1e21; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: #f2f3f5; color: #1c1e21; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">explosion of sun and air</span><br style="background-color: #f2f3f5; color: #1c1e21; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: #f2f3f5; color: #1c1e21; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">two feathers falling</span><br />
<span style="background-color: #f2f3f5; color: #1c1e21; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">.</span>Stevehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16949323084007432054noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33267087.post-4222715299900989032020-07-14T20:20:00.001+13:002020-07-14T20:20:03.879+13:00the pumpkin people<div style="background-color: white; color: #1c1e21; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; margin-bottom: 6px;">
the pumpkin people have no souls<br />they sit by riverbanks in the spray<br />oh my, they say</div>
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the pumpkin people are athletic<span class="text_exposed_show" style="display: inline; font-family: inherit;"><br />and will jump over your rooftops<br />even if you don't like it much</span></div>
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some of them collapse<br />into pumpkin heaps<br />wailing at the roadside<br />crying for their interiors</div>
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splattered by fast cars</div>
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but just one lightning flash like this<br />and a pumpkin person shoots by<br />in a great pumping bang</div>
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zenith lightning waterfall disaster</div>
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it says</div>
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oh my again</div>
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don't you want to be<br />the disastrous pumpkin people<br />with pumpkin heads<br />and pumpkin toes?</div>
</div>
Stevehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16949323084007432054noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33267087.post-21372482638936678872020-07-14T18:01:00.001+13:002020-07-14T18:01:05.606+13:00<div style="background-color: white; color: #1c1e21; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; margin-bottom: 6px;">
all night the light played<br />around my door<br />and moths upon the wing</div>
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at dawn I went to the river<span class="text_exposed_show" style="display: inline; font-family: inherit;"><br />where last I saw the moon</span></div>
Stevehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16949323084007432054noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33267087.post-51654192971945226622020-06-20T18:17:00.003+13:002020-06-20T18:24:30.655+13:00Coronavirus conspiracy limerickthe Chinese have loosed new diseases<br />
from mutant bats cooked in their freezers<br />
they want to destroy us<br />
and then to employ us<br />
as zombies to kill our lord Jesus!<br />
<br />
.Stevehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16949323084007432054noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33267087.post-46946172575011965912020-06-20T16:07:00.003+13:002020-06-20T18:45:26.141+13:00All that I can't forget what sheets our sheets all that waterfall<br />
of attempted forgiveness<br />
an owl hovers in the blue darkness<br />
<br />
in the brake an eruption of nothing<br />
just a moment, nothing again<br />
<br />
oh just a moment<br />
<br />
never more, though, never<br />
how<br />
can such<br />
neverness<br />
be<br />
<br />
when the sun still wears hats<br />
and the moon<br />
still breaks<br />
every moment<br />
<br />
like a far-off baby<br />
that rides, crying<br />
<br />
on the red shouts<br />
of wolves<br />
?<br />
<br />
.Stevehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16949323084007432054noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33267087.post-48150550475779917152020-06-20T15:59:00.001+13:002020-06-20T15:59:47.360+13:00We are the Pumpkin People<div style="background-color: white; color: #1c1e21; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; margin-bottom: 6px;">
(it was the wrong world because)</div>
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every time we hopped out<br />of our rabbit hole together<br />we collided<span class="text_exposed_show" style="display: inline; font-family: inherit;"><br />and still concussed<br />demanded to know<br />who are you<br />why are your teeth in my mouth<br />and where are the balloons?</span></div>
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now our balloons are dead as pumpkins<br />with no candles licking light within</div>
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not one sound tonight<br />not one hoot or shuffle<br />from the ancient ferns<br />or down the dry hills</div>
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even the lowering clouds and their black birds<br />all silent</div>
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I hope I am not the only one left<br />to speak of it to no one</div>
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two end walls (mist)<br />
of the ancient house<br />
in the hill above the sea<span class="text_exposed_show" style="display: inline; font-family: inherit;"><br />the grass is (like fairies) rough<br />but yields above the knee</span></div>
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and there we swell<br />
two chimneys snuffed<br />
askance, we, side on side,<br />
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(your wall there, my wall<br />
looking hovered like the sea</div>
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hanged above the fall<br />
of moon and sun<br />
and rush and tide and spree</div>
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Saint Mary's Well<br />
below the springing steep<br />
the crickets every step<br />
so leap</div>
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and rear and wash<br />
the maddened hare<br />
upon the rock above the sea</div>
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all we know divided<br />
as bells the boat<br />
beneath the stoop, the fall<br />
and bright at last<br />
from Bardsey's overfalls<br />
breaks free</div>
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the clutch of two<br />
walls sad as smokeholes<br />
fireless, grassed over</div>
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whistling as all<br />
midnight is long in you and me</div>
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hillfog, love, three<br />
fret and spark and twee upon<br />
these walls where once<br />
a tree or two made three</div>
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where midnight once blew strong<br />
in you and me</div>
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