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in collection Half
a Field's Distance: New and Selected Poems,
2006,
Shoestring Press, ISBN 978 1
904886 39 6
Climb
That banded snails
should climb (if climb’s the word)
and
stick like humbugs to damp trunks and boughs
of
trees that edged the fields, we both referred
to
as we trudged grass paths, passed barns and cows
and
trailers over-stacked with bales, but talked
much
more about the views, work, weather, what
to
do when things fall short of plans you chalked
up
(when you used to plan) for what should not
and
should have happened to you by this age—
allowing,
to a point, for parts that rhyme
and
reason play. We said how, for this stage,
we’d
counted on a summit to the climb
and
how each banded snail held onto bark
and
knew (snail savvy) it had reached its mark.
Robert Etty
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collections -
"Planes
Flying Over",
"Half
a Field's Distance"
and
"The Blue Box",
Shoestring
Press;
"Small
Affairs on the Estate"
and "A Selection"
Pikestaff Press;
"Marking
Places"
Slow Dancer;
"New
Pastorals"
Frogmore Press;
"Hovendens
Violets"
Littlewood Press
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