A. S. J. Tessimond
Essential Poems
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To Be Blind
Is it sounds
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converging,
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Sounds
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nearing,
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Infringement,
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impingement,
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Impact,
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contact /
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Cinema Screen
Light's patterns freeze:
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Frost on our faces.
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Light's pollen sifts
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Through the lids of our eyes
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Tube Station
The tube lift mounts,
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sap in a stem,
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And blossoms its load,
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a black, untidy rose.
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The founta
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Epitaph For Our Children
Blame us for these who were cradled and rocked in our chaos;
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Watching our sidelong watching, feari
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One Almost Might
Wouldn't you say,
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Wouldn't you say: one day,
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With a little more time or a little more patience,
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Not Love Perhaps
This is not Love, perhaps,
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Love that lays down its life,
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that many waters cannot quench,
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nor t
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Wet City Night
Light drunkenly reels into shadow;
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Blurs, slurs uneasily;
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Slides off the eyeballs:
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The segment
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Chaplin
The sun, a heavy spider, spins in the thirsty sky.
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The wind hides under cactus leaves, in doorway
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Meeting
Dogs take new friends abruptly and by smell,
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Cats' meetings are neat, tactual, caressive.
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Monkey
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Empty Room
The clock disserts on punctuation, syntax.
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The clock's voice, thin and dry, asserts, repeats.
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Th
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Symphony In Red
Within the church
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The solemn priests advance,
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And the sunlight, stained by the heavy windows, /
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Seaport
Green sea-tarnished copper
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And sea-tarnished gold
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Of cupolas.
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Sea-runnelled streets
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Channell
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Any Man Speaks
I, after difficult entry through my mother's blood
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And stumbling childhood (hitting my head agains
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The British
We are a people living in shells and moving
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Crablike; reticent, awkward, deeply suspicious;
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Watc
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