Monday, November 21, 2016

Robert Verdon, #364, Twenty-First Century


progress or Brownian motion?

just sixteen years, finding refuge in
Shakespeare and Sheridan and Mary Shelley

some sort of sense emerges
when taken with Marx

speeding up, a bug on a windscreen
wishing to be behind the wheel




how the wind sweeps through the camera
when the back is turned

4 comments:

  1. Wonderful. I like how the poem ends, but are you happy to have three definite articles here:

    how the wind sweeps through the camera
    when the back is turned

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    1. Thanks Myron — that is how these final lines came to me but you may be right

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  2. Ah, terrific, Robbie. (You're in a storm, on a roll, I reckon.) And terrific the odd tension you have marked out in that small space. How we wish to be before - or before it happens. It Marx me too. Cheers.

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    1. Maybe it's the lingering effects of that 'supermoon'…

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