Friday, September 03, 2010

Measurings

Bad, bad blogger. Don't know why: work, maybe. Been writing lots as well, so that's maybe something to do with it. First of a wee run of appearances on Tuesday at Thomas Tosh in Thornhill, at 7.30 pm, then Glasgow the night after. Here's poem inspired by non-pupil day at school.




Measurings



The windows frame the blues
that bank to the horizon,
throw up hints of the beauty
welled out there and
displaced by circumstance.

So the internal view too.
Our speakers have a screen
that swims with sentences like eels,
today’s terms of reference,
but words are everywhere

like air, and turn
to dread or desire more readily
than the curriculum:
that way, the sun on old wood like blood,
and there, that girl you could love.

Life is full of ghost measurings,
the gaps between what you pretend,
and what you are,
where you’re sitting now,
and where you really ought to be.

3 comments:

hope said...

You are forgiven if for nothing else, the last 4 lines alone. :)

You are missed when you don't come to play.

Titus said...

It will not be wee.
Where Glasgow?
Like hope, mighty impressed with that last verse.

Marion McCready said...

Lovely, the last two stanzas especially.