Monday, 1 March 2021

For Lawrence Ferlinghetti

A picture of a long gone world
 
                           
 Stood at the top of the long world
lighthouse at my feet
            chalk cliffs plummeting into the grasp of the relentless
                                    
Aspidochelone in the depths
                        the gorse leaning towards life at 45°
                                    rainbows plucked from other hemispheres
   words shimmer in the refracted/reflected light
                    the steam rises from the Cappuccino machine
 plumes of Marlboro smoke emerge and merge
                            a huddle of young poets sit
        amazed and deranged in the hurly-burly hours of a weekday morning
                                    the haunted shadows of deep night erased by the golden cacophony of sunrise
            the book is held open and the words are shared...

... there are others out there, we are not alone.





                                  
                                

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