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in
collection Dreaming
of Walls Repeating Themselves, Templar,
Oct 07
previously
published in Carterton
Pride: Tin Shacks to Beacon Town
His Photos
Runways,
planes, jeeps and parade grounds,
an
overturned wagon with jagged metal sides,
three
men standing around in the mud.
He
was obsessed with repetition—a fat tyre
tread,
bolts,
rivets, boots, the day to day of Company B,
the
803rd Engineer Aviation Battalion.
Over
here with his Camels and whiskey
and
a car that wouldn’t fit down some of our lanes,
cussing
the narrow way we lived,
printing
notes on the back Laying asphalt—break
time—No. 12 shoes—
(who
else would catalogue an asphalt finisher’s size?)
typing
over the front Bridge to Argyll Castle—old
as hell.
How
he remembered our little island—farm, palace, castle,
henge,
road, strip, lawn—an inventory of constructions
and
the flower garden where he lived was just etc.
Pat Winslow
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last
update:
e-mail
Pat
poetry
favourites:
Magma
Rain Dog
Iota
Poetry London
The Poetry Society
Templar
Poetry
The Rialto
and in
the
shop
...
collections:
(forthcoming:
"Unpredictable Geometry",
Templar Poetry)
"Dreaming of Walls Repeating Themselves",
Templar
Poetry;
"Skin & Dust"
Blinking Eye;
"The Girl in the Iron Lung"
Crocus
Books;
"The Fact of an Eye"
Amazing Colossal
in
anthology:
"The Poetry Cure"
Bloodaxe Books
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