The Orchid Boat by Lee Harwood

Author:Lee Harwood [Harwood, Lee]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Enitharmon Press
Published: 2014-04-03T23:00:00+00:00

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PALAEONTOLOGY

On the edge of town the half finished buildings,

a red neon sign flickering in the distance.

You step off into the scrub, an abandoned orchard.

The thick summer darkness, crickets whirring.

Was this where you expected to end up?

lost or mainly so? in a dream?

Planks scattered on the ground,

cement smeared shuttering just left.

But the night not that frightening,

the landscape well known despite the strangeness.

Been-here-before one way or another.

To push on past weariness, but with so much baggage.

You know? and ...

You cry out in your sleep.

Why, how is that?

‘Carelessness is also disastrous’, someone wrote.

An ice-coated ledge or a small neglect

decades ago when a little clarity ...

A daily haunting, a nightly haunting.

Heavy with memories.

Ordering the ordinary – that surface stuff –

move the chair, safely put away that dish

– but below, gnawing at the foundations,

ignorance or just avoiding the questions.

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