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A. B. Jackson
Ruth
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Ruth at sunrise, grooming horses.The bit, bridle, curry-comb of love
was her business.
Simeon skulked around indoors,
consulted Qabalah, threw sticks,
anything to improve sex.
Clouds were locomotive smoke,
camels or torn pillows,
the imperfect
science of moodswing or a god
in evidence everywhere, the veil
obscuring male from female.
Ruth gathered apples. The Elohim
stamped in their stalls.
© 2005, A. B. Jackson
From: The Dark Horse magazine
from \'Apocrypha\'
From: The Dark Horse magazine
A. B. Jackson
(United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, 1965)
A.B. (Andrew Buchanan) Jackson was born in 1965 in Glasgow and raised in the north-west of England. After secondary school in Fife, he studied English Literature at Edinburgh University, where he shared a flat with fellow student Roddy Lumsden. Together they founded and edited the undergraduate poetry magazine Fox and ran the Edinburgh University Poetry Society between 1986 and 1987.
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Ruth at sunrise, grooming horses.The bit, bridle, curry-comb of love
was her business.
Simeon skulked around indoors,
consulted Qabalah, threw sticks,
anything to improve sex.
Clouds were locomotive smoke,
camels or torn pillows,
the imperfect
science of moodswing or a god
in evidence everywhere, the veil
obscuring male from female.
Ruth gathered apples. The Elohim
stamped in their stalls.
From: The Dark Horse magazine
from \'Apocrypha\'
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