Poem
Phoebe Power
children
children
children
sheen and clanksnakes to this colour town
this shout! and noise –
those letterboxes squeezed
to points – faces raised
to roofs! crammed
aqua violet orange
– figures getting down
from window frames
swung open –
raised arms and bended –
scarlet and yellow trousers!
children running
verging the dark
world of tree and linelessness
calling from the roofs
and from the giant
leaves – dark-green!
© 2018, Carcanet
From: Shrines of Upper Austria
Publisher: Carcanet, Manchester
From: Shrines of Upper Austria
Publisher: Carcanet, Manchester
Phoebe Power
(United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, 1993)
Phoebe Power’s poetry has a kaleidoscopic quality. Her work combines image, character and narrative with a variety of forms to create strange and compelling pieces that can be both charming and elusive. Her unique admixture of humour and horror, the erotic and the political, has garnered attention and critical acclaim. Her first full length collection was a Poetry Book Society Recommendation an...
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children
sheen and clanksnakes to this colour town
this shout! and noise –
those letterboxes squeezed
to points – faces raised
to roofs! crammed
aqua violet orange
– figures getting down
from window frames
swung open –
raised arms and bended –
scarlet and yellow trousers!
children running
verging the dark
world of tree and linelessness
calling from the roofs
and from the giant
leaves – dark-green!
From: Shrines of Upper Austria
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