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Saturday, December 17, 2011
Erosion
Level with a passing ship
and buried by sky, the flood plain shows
the tide a quivering top lip
of shallow soil between my house
and the soft clay banks I hardly trust.
Drip-fed back to gull and wader,
the fields will go and not be missed,
dry for now but underwater.
Though barn and spire may stand against
the heavens’ downward-plunging level,
here we are captive though unfenced.
Deliver us, Lord, not from evil
but, worse again, the solving blank
of a place where only postmen come,
and save for us when all has sunk
a tremor in the churchyard loam:
no resurrection of the flesh,
but our thin coffins shaken from
their moorings by the tidal wash,
plunging us past all roots and home.
(Sunk Island)
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discarded i.e. failed poem
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Failed poem? You must be joking. It's beautiful and intricate and very carefully rendered.
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