after DHLawrence
Clearly out-of-it in some way
a wasp goes through the motions;
stumbles around the rim or
homes in on my sweet beer breath.
Wafted away it stalls, falls off the air
clumsy to the table, too weak to evade;
to programme the usual lines of code
but she walks into a spec of sweet.
And like an idea dawning on a human face,
Babbage’s last tumblers falling into place,
the sweet seems to select a sequence – nest.
She turns, clock-wise, aligns to the light,
rolls a cold sun like a solitary bearing
to shine down the funnel of a compound eye:
checks angle, declination, wind
then casts away on to the wing.
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hello, i'm a friend of hannah's and i like this poem.
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i suppose it shouldn't be strange that a friend of your daughter's from across ocean and land, on the eve of christmas 2009, who is simultaneously in the space between acute alertness and devastating exhaustion can feel a bit nervous about paying compliment to his friend's father.
perhaps it isn't strange anymore, similar to how hand-written letters are viewed as rarity (but reversed).
anyway ------- most importantly - i enjoyed this poem.