FOR NOW
If the lack is constant
it is also at a remove
like this Easter haze
lightly marring a clear sky
Imminence has receded
to days of blandness and small treats
This will do for now
Saturday, 30 April 2011
Time theme
Thanks Fiona; very acute. Here is my Easter Sunday diary poem which is about time in a way (but aren't they all?). best wishes to all, James
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The poem seems to operate through its position towards change. Vocabulary hints at the unsatisfactoriness of this position: "lack","marring""blandness", thereby undermining the stated position that "this will do" so a kind of tension is set up between the present and the future.
ReplyDeleteThe "haze" seems too to be a part of this lack of clarity and "treats" are "small" and by implication unsatisfactory despite the persona stating the contrary.
There seems to be a threat implied although this may not be the intention.
Interesting.