Observation
A tall bloke talks
A short bloke listens
And on his face
A question
A smudge
A blue tear
Below his eye
Tattooed
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The verger
the verger
-amiable
wears a white top
rights the lady chapel
The Catholic priest
- ingenue
Smiles at his flock
Clutches the Silver
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Barman
Bar man walks up
Chews
puts something behind the bar
a pen -still- behind his ear
walks back
He bends down
comes up with a bottle
flips it
walks round a corner
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Chells 1957 No 2 the swing
Mornings on my swing
In the apple shadow
Riding for the theme
To call the dismount
Then at the gate
Watching the aching fields
As the bus stops
To rob my mind
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Definition
Poise with the pose
'No no its ''lartez'' '
That is the way
It has to be said
'No no its ''lartez'' '
His black eyes
escape the debate
Clout me out
A fresh argument
Forgetting ''lartez''
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Chells 1957 no 3
Sunlight on oak leaves
Reveals the windows open
through this clear morning
The barn warming speaks
My mind on tiptoe
The brightnes beckons
Bacon singing sizzling upward
Fixes all the moment
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The Blush Of Apples
Those eleven apples
A seasons festoon
Green slowly defeated
And blush triumphant
So apples ripen
An aide existential
Innocent they'll fall
Picked or blown
The natural way
As things go
The Autumn conclusion
Sung in unison
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To Cambridge
and beside me
and travelling
Studying notes
Grasping the fact
The fraught features
Looks again reads
and so beyond
and travelling
After hedges
The so blue sky
Lets planes and clouds
Each one some space
and so onward
and travelling
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Jade immortality
Red silk link tablets
-jade by jade
Mark a once space
- of mortal wish
Now a private immortal
-cased in silence
Her inclined features
-through the stare
How close am I
-the ache apparent
Her inquiring look yearns
-at the response
The dream is made
-of endless life
The solitary plaques unanimous
-declaim the reality
The shape is itself
-its own reply
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A reaction to a film
A score of years my truth for you
A life without contact captured forever now here
This fact silent absorbed fed by my illusion
Filling the raw reality of moods silent eruption
As I watch myself ailing aging and fading
The flow approaches denouement this layer cake life
Never any release - no -nor any single word
Until death bed lips mouth your conjoured name
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