Daily Archives: July 6, 2015

DAY FIFTY-SIX – Ira Lightman

new boots and pantisocracies

Canto for Radio 4

the nations of the union
scatter of the raindrops then pavement wet blocks dark
between
side streets,

the notion that the one

dry circle round
a Becks stood on the pavement
the bra strap flash in Borough, burr and brrr
clippers round a line

whitewash flicks the brush, asperges
scatter

by papers move
and move about

wouldst thou have a cardiac
at Cardiff or at Waverley
at Central, Great Victoria
floating, stuck?

bee shall graze the anther, nudge the next forget-me stigma
bushy flash of fabric
bind me with your Celtic hair

forget-me-nots a float of blue
diaphanous
in wood grass
aspergilliform, a featherflirt of green

the circle of forget-me-not
by gold is nectar sheltered
the circle round the Becks
the movement on the gold
dry like paper

union not one
gold standard then the Euro now
for every reckless borrower
must have been a reckless…

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