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Immediate Lines On Hearing About The Death Of A Primary School Classmate
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Dead Bird
from my poetry blog
Dead Bird The kids are fascinated by the varying states of putrefaction. Every morning we pause, compare it to yesterday's studied image. "Where have it's eyes gone? Have they sunk into its skull?" Half-covered by an overnight shroud of autumn leaves, provoking a conflict of opinion. The girl thinks it should be buried out of decency, the boy eager to glimpse its surfacing skeleton. Every day its stomach is drawn in, the ribs rising. Then this morning, stunned: the bird is gone, perhaps removed by a conscientious council worker. The boy thinks that it's been dragged off to be devoured by a fox, or a cat, but whatever it was it must have been really down on its luck, falling on that desiccated morsel for a feast. ©AndrewJamesMurray
Hinge Moments
from my poetry blog
Hinge Moments
there are hinge moments
that connect
the before and after
beneath the blustering larches
we make them visible
on crowded carriages
the fingers that brushed briefly
in causal static
an eidetic clarity
of toss-a-coin
choice
take off your shoes
this is sacred ground
this is the place where we first met
Word Jam #13
from my poetry blog
from a restful source
to rushing rapids,
migrating salmon
-Osprey fodder,
snatched on silent
Atlantic missions,
slivers of light
transfiguring elements:
water to sky;
life to death
Night Poem
from my poetry blog
the loneliness of distraction
a question of language
the cravatted pirate hijacking the turntable
wait up to see the shooting stars
tearing holes in the firmament
of crystal glass
name a rose after that velvet queen
lost in the garden
painting portraits and hustling
the elite for a pound
speak the names of those gone before
unfinished manifestos staked
to scarlet trees
A ‘Shoutout’ For In Brigantia
I have the honour of appearing on musician Laura Bruno Lilly’s site this week for the publication of my poetry collection In Brigantia.
You can read her review here:
http://laurabrunolilly.com/poetry-shoutout-in-brigantia-by-andrew-james-murray/
Word Jam #12
