Poem
Mark Waldron
What are things
What are things
What are things
if not what they seem?Take a lemony bird.
Have it.
An up-down nestling tree,
a sudden impromptu rumba,
an old sky,
a bare wind. Have it and have it.
The sounding line,
its sleepy plummet.
The boom, boom of calling.
Have it.
Mark Waldron
(United States of America, 1960)
Called ‘the most striking and unusual new voice’ in contemporary British poetry’ by John Stammers, Mark Waldron brings us a world at once real and unreal, familiar and strange. His self-reflexive poems break the fourth wall and then give the fourth wall a personality. He is pursued by a cast of recurring characters who seem to rebel against their creator. Original, accessible and fantastical, W...
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What are things
if not what they seem?Take a lemony bird.
Have it.
An up-down nestling tree,
a sudden impromptu rumba,
an old sky,
a bare wind. Have it and have it.
The sounding line,
its sleepy plummet.
The boom, boom of calling.
Have it.
What are things
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