Arthur Seymour John Tessimond Light Poems

• 1. Betrayal
  If a man says half himself in the light, adroit
  Way a tune shakes into equilibrium,
  Or approximates to a note that never comes:
  
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• 2. Night Piece
  Climb, claim your shelf-room, far
  Packed from inquisitive moon
  And cold contagious stars.
  
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• 3. The British
  We are a people living in shells and moving
  Crablike; reticent, awkward, deeply suspicious;
  Watching the world from a corner of half-closed eyelids,
  Afraid lest someone show that he hates or loves us,
  ...
• 4. Don Juan
  Under the lips and limbs, the embraces, faces,
  Under the sharp circumference, the brightness,
  Under the fence of shadows,
  Is something I am seeking;
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• 5. Empty Room
  The clock disserts on punctuation, syntax.
  The clock's voice, thin and dry, asserts, repeats.
  The clock insists: a lecturer demonstrating,
  Loudly, with finger raised, when the class has gone.
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• 6. Any Man Speaks
  I, after difficult entry through my mother's blood
  And stumbling childhood (hitting my head against the world);
  I, intricate, easily unshipped, untracked, unaligned;
  Cut off in my communications; stammering; speaking
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• 7. Wet City Night
  Light drunkenly reels into shadow;
  Blurs, slurs uneasily;
  Slides off the eyeballs:
  The segments shatter.
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• 8. Cinema Screen
  Light's patterns freeze:
  Frost on our faces.
  Light's pollen sifts
  Through the lids of our eyes ...
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