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Elizabeth James

The most substantial collection made so far of Elizabeth James's poetry, comprising work in sequences made between 2001 and 2003.

contents:
poem (frames)
poem (berlin)
words of the weak
poem (roger smith)

1-903488-41-9. 2004. 44 pp. £4.00 / $6.00

Base to Carry

 

honeysuckle
 

those who live much in the past
beautiful cream-coloured flowers
they do not expect further happiness
such as they have had


a harmful invader
is considered by many
to be a godsend

-- the woman
threatens the biodiversity of wild
ambitions
which have not come true


our obsolete hostilities
drawing in air
grudging or emulous
as a dry pump


cloverhead
one not taken advantage of
rises from underground
to the long-tongued

 

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