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Caroline
Carver has been commended in this year's National Poetry
Competition.
Her poem ju ju baby worked through more than 11,600
entries to be
among the top ten.
She says she feels very
honoured.
in
collection, Three Hares, 2009,
Oversteps
Books, ISBN 978-1-906856-06-9
Leaving the Ice House
World
Like
preCambrian rocks
which
have finally mastered the art of standing still
Gaia
turns quietly on her axis
continents
stirring contentedly at speeds perceptible only to her
the
fires in her belly feeding fantasies of a domestic hearth
where
she’ll sit with her feet up
flicking
the channel switch of her Big Brother creator
watching
herself in all his mirrors at once
sometimes
wearing dust-brown rags of famine
sometimes
her favourite Snow Queen outfit
with
icing borrowed from Neptune
but
the devil’s in the detail she likes
to make herself invisible
listens
eagerly as poets struggle to describe love
scientists
talk through the night in space laboratories
measuring
differences in ice
Wait!
another space ship has just gone up
carrying
items of immense importance –
radio
recordings of 21st century music
a
speech from the greatest of all presidents
sealed
canisters filled from Pandora’s box
Gaia
shrugs tectonic
plates grind their teeth
as
always in times of doubt
she
reaches for her pack of Tarot cards
Caroline Carver
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