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jewel hair * is your wan hopes to knot this ginger * while geraniums ? . . . gem at the conch’s curl to rim the ear’s attentive arabesque . . . a star * which seeps its scent : sweet to bud a * jewel * a burnished gleam which mirror-mounts my face up * up into the iris’ eye immobile * idol of stone waters in which silent * narcissus (cerulean) stares : an I in miniature * a you mountains climbing up into yesterday’s winter ringed with hopes and the ever-present snows adorata * an odour of lilacs (remember that) and the pine black jagged * zip grin flown into yesterday’s panorama (the mountains) in a montage * rustling showing how the horse * really runs how the wings beat and how the moth flattens * exhausted in a ring round the valley lilac * and silent . . . but O look ! * the stars are coming out * let’s count them one . . . no not the mountains ! the stars * you fool * the stars love poem 48 must this sea- * side be the same in- side my mind ? while I lay dreaming * of you and make you finer than a fair dream lost or idol unperceived ? my * rose * my blooming : looming lights * of the distant land where the wind at the walls' base shakes the dry stone . . . (rulers over- thrown) these the long-off * lights of your yet invisible image : ever with me * beloved dense darkness proof of your pure power * potential possessed your ideal state : as in your absence * presence more : this blank sea a satiate space * this lifeless void : perfection's place |
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nicholas
manning is a Paris-based poet who graduated
from the University of Queensland in Brisbane, Australia with a BA in
Comparative Literature and French. He was the recipient of a
scholarship to the Ecole normale supérieure. He is currently
working towards a PhD dissertation on the subject of rhetoric in
contemporary French and American Poetry. His poems have appeared or are
forthcoming in: Free Verse, Fascicle, MiPOesias, eratio, Stylus, Aught,
Shampoo, Manifold, The Rose &Thorn, Blue Fifth Review,
CipherJournal, Fire, Centoria and Imago.
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