Gedicht
Elisabeth Bletsoe
from Pharmacopoeia
from Pharmacopoeia
from Pharmacopoeia
Stinking Iris (Iris Foetidissima)Kilve
sea-cliffs &
a green confluence of
waters
daggered leaves
of flower-de-luce
cut your smile
in slices
of salt light
under a fossil
triturate, I conceal
charred letters
for you to dis-
cover
these stones are shaped by
desire, though you
will not believe it;
it is a country where you are,
a delicate
recurve of tepals
a ‘pencilling’ of purple-gray/
blue-gray
on tombs at Carnac:
Iris who leads a woman’s soul
to the fields of Elysium
“growing more grateful & aromatic
as it dries”
Cow-Wheat (Melampyrum Pratense)
Five Lords\' Wood, Quantock
visions of finding
the source
among these juicy
sluices
sweat dries
& cools as we ascend
by leaf by moss by fern
fleck
in aqua-
shadow
acts of rapine
on the grass, a
contamination
ground down
to poverty bread
the strong grip of your hand
as you pull me
over a dream threshold
making a moue
in the darkness
(petal-tube)
“hold me
or I will escape you”
Elder (Sambucus Nigra)
Culbone
voltage
accrued
since before
Atlantis
leprous crystals
irrupt
each atom, the woods
become hyaline;
incandescent
in shadows of
narcolepsy
Eldrun
or Hyllan-tree
wherein a witch
embarks herself, will
bleed
at midsummer,
reverse
lightning
where
vortices
of 5-petalled flowers
brush lips
skin
hair
by yeast
& muscatel
we are both now
forespoken
Stinging Nettle (Urticus Dioica)
Castle Hill, Stowey
infesting the
perimeter of the
incendiary field we
lie down in
& fall into the sky
cirrus fibrils a
prolegomenon
to thorms in the S.W.
veins of sorrel & leporine
spoors
& the 2 pale horses
what should they signify?
“beset with little prickles”
flagella for the
subjugation of wayward
flesh
(an early photographer of the Linnaean
collection having been stung by a nettle
dried 200 years)
though makes a good thick
soup
heating &
rich for the blood
© 1999, Elisabeth Bletsoe
From: Pharmacopoeia
Publisher: Odyssey Poets + Terrible Workpress, Somerset
From: Pharmacopoeia
Publisher: Odyssey Poets + Terrible Workpress, Somerset
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from Pharmacopoeia
Stinking Iris (Iris Foetidissima)Kilve
sea-cliffs &
a green confluence of
waters
daggered leaves
of flower-de-luce
cut your smile
in slices
of salt light
under a fossil
triturate, I conceal
charred letters
for you to dis-
cover
these stones are shaped by
desire, though you
will not believe it;
it is a country where you are,
a delicate
recurve of tepals
a ‘pencilling’ of purple-gray/
blue-gray
on tombs at Carnac:
Iris who leads a woman’s soul
to the fields of Elysium
“growing more grateful & aromatic
as it dries”
Cow-Wheat (Melampyrum Pratense)
Five Lords\' Wood, Quantock
visions of finding
the source
among these juicy
sluices
sweat dries
& cools as we ascend
by leaf by moss by fern
fleck
in aqua-
shadow
acts of rapine
on the grass, a
contamination
ground down
to poverty bread
the strong grip of your hand
as you pull me
over a dream threshold
making a moue
in the darkness
(petal-tube)
“hold me
or I will escape you”
Elder (Sambucus Nigra)
Culbone
voltage
accrued
since before
Atlantis
leprous crystals
irrupt
each atom, the woods
become hyaline;
incandescent
in shadows of
narcolepsy
Eldrun
or Hyllan-tree
wherein a witch
embarks herself, will
bleed
at midsummer,
reverse
lightning
where
vortices
of 5-petalled flowers
brush lips
skin
hair
by yeast
& muscatel
we are both now
forespoken
Stinging Nettle (Urticus Dioica)
Castle Hill, Stowey
infesting the
perimeter of the
incendiary field we
lie down in
& fall into the sky
cirrus fibrils a
prolegomenon
to thorms in the S.W.
veins of sorrel & leporine
spoors
& the 2 pale horses
what should they signify?
“beset with little prickles”
flagella for the
subjugation of wayward
flesh
(an early photographer of the Linnaean
collection having been stung by a nettle
dried 200 years)
though makes a good thick
soup
heating &
rich for the blood
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