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2nd Aug23
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Malcolm Carson website
poetry favourites:
Shoestring Press
London Grip
Books Cumbria
The High Window
Narrator Typesetters & Designers
and in the shop…
collections –
“Winging It”,
“Edgar”,
“The Where and When”,
“Route Choice”,
“Cleethorpes Comes to Paris”,
“Rangi Changi”
and
“Breccia”
Shoestring Press;
anthologies –
“Celebrating a Century: A Festschrift for Maurice Rutherford”
and
“Take Five 03”
Shoestring Press;
“Miracle and Clockwork”
Other Poetry;
“The Nottingham Collection”
Five Leaves Press;
Edgar in a time of pestilence
I watch the bat at dusk,
chauve souris, sweeping
up the midges that cloud
my hair. All’s obscure,
oscura, as though the laurels,
yews, the graveyard trees,
speak of matters I know
too well when the mind’s diseased.
Amid it all, the bat
sounds out impediments,
and in a tilt of wing
or thought dips away.
Would we had loved its cleverness
before darkness induced in us
such arrogance, a carapace
of intelligence where we’d no thought
to look beyond ourselves.
And now the foul fiend
runs amok. Meantime
my little pipistrelle
dances in the dark,
l’ombrage, crepusculum.
Malcolm Carson
in collection, Edgar, 2023, Shoestring Press,
ISBN 978-1-915553-21-8
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