from Optic Verve 
                              mid late                   Dec 05                 words weight
       persuasion                                                                          each affirmation
                wives and daughters                                         a value
                                                                                                           among
       poetry and prose                                                   those                 who venture
                                                                                     out
and here we are                                                               style             trans
                                                                               mutable                       through
the 21st century                                                       language
                                                                            fails
where they've only begun
                                                                                    the lazy
          getting round (to it                                            convention
                                                                        apparently
                                                                                ensuring its
                                                                      worth      or some
C18th rationalism                                       such      throwback
                                                                                     to
        v.     what?                           uneven
                                                          quotidian
        ignorance                                   the external
                materialism                               framework
                                                                            still skeletal
-- mind the gap --                                         scaffolding
                                                                            stagnant        gap
             the train sped off                           every day
                                                                       wearing
bending through the tunnel                                    tones
a    rush of                  heated                                vertical
                                                                                     structures of
    air on the repetitive                                                       power
    draught         passengers
    seemingly only having jumped on                                    defying
                                                                                                   internalised
doors closing                  a coat tail here a
    squashed claustrophobic expression                        ideologies
                                                                                                   which were
there                                                                                     justifying
                                                                                                  oppression
 
 


Catherine Walsh

>>>Augustus Young

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