Selected Poems by Ted Burford
 

Today, we have 70 poems + 11 stories + 3 essays = 84 works by 43 authors
Basket Casing by William Watkin Back to browse title
we know that at the bottom of every cobbled way
a castle awaits us and of course that it is brooding we
wanted to go there but then again who wouldn’t
or doesn’t the sound of shoes the passages are restricting
where so ever the wicker basket wanders
under the tumbling rushes of the wind
there too do I head after a love of the aimless ways

always a furtive child they were wedded
to the hidden portion which they then drank down
to be found crouching by a hedgehog to be
found crawling through the hedge lodge of pent up gardens
casing the joins it was inevitable wasn’t it I mean
you had got to see that coming right? right

it seems that even feudalism had its fun moments yes
tugging at the arm which in its turn was also pulling
pulling at the first involved in grabbing at the feckless noun
grubbing after what something not quite so portentous as
history had placed down there and in this way found that
lo we had arrived breathless and younger at the broken open gates
we did not dare to raise our eyes but watched the sedges in the cracks

somehow its footsteps becoming enmeshed in all of that its passing
somewhere an animal wailed after the life it never yet had led
I
pressed record
lingered in a spun gossamer of gloom
that smell?
night-flowering intertwining with parasitical of pale jasmine bloom
 
   
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