Poem
Richard Price
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Even stations move.Can I meet you fifteen years ago
by the sprung chainlink?
We could watch together those ever-afters
waiting for a platform. The go-ahead
and they’re polite about it.
Sandstone dust, or not now the long settled past –
construction grit in a suspension of air.
I could meet you fifteen minutes ago
at the same coordinates.
I’m watch-wiping on the interim platform.
For once I’m not about
to be all that late,
give or take, and if you’d show up
not even half apologising (not that you – )
between yesterday and now, or simply tomorrow
I’d class that on time.
© 2005, Richard Price
Publisher: The Times Literary Supplement,
Publisher: The Times Literary Supplement,
Richard Price
(United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, 1966)
Richard Price was born in Reading in 1966 and grew up in Renfrewshire, south-west of Glasgow. He trained as a journalist at Napier College, Edinburgh before studying English and Librarianship at Strathclyde University, Glasgow.
Price is associated with the 1990s group of poets, the Informationists, which includes W.N. Herbert, David Kinloch, Peter McCarey and Alan Riach. He writes: “One of the i...
Price is associated with the 1990s group of poets, the Informationists, which includes W.N. Herbert, David Kinloch, Peter McCarey and Alan Riach. He writes: “One of the i...
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Even stations move.Can I meet you fifteen years ago
by the sprung chainlink?
We could watch together those ever-afters
waiting for a platform. The go-ahead
and they’re polite about it.
Sandstone dust, or not now the long settled past –
construction grit in a suspension of air.
I could meet you fifteen minutes ago
at the same coordinates.
I’m watch-wiping on the interim platform.
For once I’m not about
to be all that late,
give or take, and if you’d show up
not even half apologising (not that you – )
between yesterday and now, or simply tomorrow
I’d class that on time.
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