September 2015
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- Written by: Stephen Bailey
(for Alan Summers on his birthday)
on waking
a candlelit drama
centre-stage
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recalling 9/11, drone bombings, Viet Nam, Hiroshima, Pukerangiora .........
dead silence . . .
and still the circus
and still the circus
goes on
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War
will thy will
also be droned in heaven
as it is on earth?
another piece—
in matching body parts
she finds her child
re-membering
the love of the many
in a mass grave
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An Anniversary Tribute
(remembering Svetlana Marisova)
silent bird,
shadows of your voice
stir the void
valley mist—
all the shapes words make
of light
empty now
the presence that once was
nothing but you
twilight sky—
the withdrawal
of your veil
light-smeared
and still waning
crescent moon
afterglow
wisp by wick
a candle
nameless moon—
spring light flitters
the shadows
after life
slow deep September
breaks the soil
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for H. Gene Murtha (4th September)
final straw
we draw the dark side
of the moon