Poem
Frances Presley
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Friday. Goodthese black shards
scattered on the field
where sheep and walkers go
piecing together
piece work
R e p u b l i c
C h R e p u b l i c
Czech Republic
O r
n e t s ?
A r
n e t s ?
Hornets
black saucers
must be clay pigeons
tap they
clay
not plastic
come blow your horn
*
remembering semtex
the shifting sense
the shifting S
*
Site of Special Scientific Interest
see today
sea pitched
sea level
subsequent storms
the new salt marsh
no more freshwater
the salt line
grey grass
bleached trees
byre useless
sea birds
come skeeting home
walking back past lambs
he was talking ahead of me
about the Sibylline
lore and the ambiguity of
Sibylline law
© 2006, Frances Presley
From: Myne: New and Selected Poems & Prose 1976-2005
Publisher: Shearsman, Exeter
From: Myne: New and Selected Poems & Prose 1976-2005
Publisher: Shearsman, Exeter
Frances Presley
(United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, 1952)
The great majority of Frances Presley’s work is gathered into the last two volumes mentioned below, which thus represent a kind of Collected Poems: Paravane: New & Selected Poems 1996-2003 (Salt Publishing, Cambridge, 2004) and Myne: new and selected poems and prose 1976-2005 (Shearsman Books, Exeter, 2006). Her work might best be described as “feminist experimental”, but her work also has clea...
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APRIL
FROM GREENALEIGH TO PORLOCK BAY
Friday. Goodthese black shards
scattered on the field
where sheep and walkers go
piecing together
piece work
R e p u b l i c
C h R e p u b l i c
Czech Republic
O r
n e t s ?
A r
n e t s ?
Hornets
black saucers
must be clay pigeons
tap they
clay
not plastic
come blow your horn
*
remembering semtex
the shifting sense
the shifting S
*
Site of Special Scientific Interest
see today
sea pitched
sea level
subsequent storms
the new salt marsh
no more freshwater
the salt line
grey grass
bleached trees
byre useless
sea birds
come skeeting home
walking back past lambs
he was talking ahead of me
about the Sibylline
lore and the ambiguity of
Sibylline law
From: Myne: New and Selected Poems & Prose 1976-2005
APRIL
FROM GREENALEIGH TO PORLOCK BAY
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