Bouville Bouvoise after Sartre pour Le Havre
Massive boulevard,
intervening factory
stagger perimeter. as in La Nause'e (1938)
Manifest Fabian Socialist
The English language as in the late 19th c.
taught RP in every school ;
a fear of the rule. or, fear of the ruler
September 27th
RP For The BBC
Dambusters' English raid date May 1943
approaching the Mohne Fort flak towers
or, of Foyle's War. ITV (2002-2015)
Lancaster Exploding 4 engine heavy bomber
Crew just had a job of seven
to do - in a do, or die
War, the reason why. for 'cookies away'
Open Neck Shirt wolf in sheep's clothing
Blair, with red guitar
and Neanderthal pop star no oasis
twanged the casual. annoyed a General
Invective Deleted on Cheri
Pansy, and lounge lizard
were Joan's biting proper nouns not adjectives
of condemnation. she, quasi-SOE
September 28th
Above A Car Park for Morrison's
Slick garbage people, double entendre
neat their luxury condo or, bonz.
gaze into nothing.
Studd Sojourn Katherine, a Godmother
Sunnier winter, with Aubrey every year
a gift of The Western Cape the best wines
of South Africa.
Transport
Interminable,
the penned raging and wailing
blent from the joyful. pace Larkin
September 29th
In Recognition source Kyiv Independent
The Superhuman (s)
Prosthetic Centre, Ukraine
thanks to Vladimir.
Finding The Time
Lawn garden, Caen Wood : Towers Farm
The Sundial Stone. View your
shadow, centre square. 11 am
October Octopus for Sophie H. i.m. we, caught by
the Greece-Cyprus war in 1974
I prefer to dine
on the azure Aegean,
quaff dry Retsina. we did, that August
September 30th Sophie died the way Fiona died.
Lost : two soul mates +. A Double First in Classics
---- neither got to see my site www.sundialzen.com.
Written October 1st for September 30th :
Post-Communion Coffee at St. Mary's
Inane conversation,
torn of his last summer shirt
worn fearing autumn. he said
Stanbury Court White designed A F A Trehearne
Lime top deck railing or, liner (landmark)
ocean flat roofs, indented : first word verb
Art Deco classic. drawn 1936 built 1947
On Proper Radio The Third Programme
Choral Evensong : at 4 pm
harbinger of afternoon
with all candles lit.
Beyond Giotto cf The Madonna In Majesty (1310)
The bred Firenze
Italian Quattrocento 1400-1499
smirked a Virginem. cf Angelus ad Virginem
Cimabue painted her neo-Byzantine, expressionless.
Dunsfold Trek
The Wey and Arun
Canal, v. Napoleon strategic
ran from South Surrey.
October 1st
Point-to-Point draft first pbl. Isis Oxford
c. Sept 1974 (latest)
Below the South Down
the Range Rovers are dark green,
and with radio. text kept simple
re-tuned October 18th versus 'The North' (objectors)
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The Bnot Yaakov Bridge full dates notes at end
(summer 1973 - 1975) punctuation added
Bunkering wasn't only strategy,
the Golan ground Syrian bravery.
Here, nomadic, and unable to balk
the Ottoman, charioteering Turk
surrendering Zion a residence synonym for Israel
amidst a dry, hypnotising absence.
The stagnant abode of Clotho, unseen a Fate
ineffectual south-east of The Aegean ;
Lachesis' measuring, whimsical smile
faltered, and mile after untempled mile
felt unescorted, unseductive, exiled -
drought was an untalkative colonnade ;
foundering, atrophied and unfounded
cutting Atropos wilted unshaded. The Greek Fates
Terrorising an unfortified night
Syrians, around 1948
slaughtered the quiescent Kibbutz
five hundred yards from the fetid Jordan.
Later, tinting jets found macabre fun,
blindfold crews haranguing empty-mouthed heat
bludgeoning, aerobatic, a defeat.
Not our Bnot Yaakov frontier station.
Britain offered Zion a covenant
in Uganda ; Zion struck, adamant.
Kibbutz Gadot, rebuilded and rebuilt
in a concrete corrugated and white,
Israeli cottages siestering I, summer 1973
kibbutzniks returning from labouring.
Illimitable, laudatory winds I sun-read Milton
maraud unimpeded, loosely curtained...
O, the murdering and mesmeric azure,
the affable subterfuge of a breeze...
Soon, brief sunset breezes ; and hot macadam
solidifying with rest for the damned
of the ash road and the bunkering heat
and mirages soldiering in the heat.
summer 1973 ; Feb 27th 1975 ; November 14th '23.
A further draft dated 1979 awaits inspection. About
half of the hand-written original has been redacted.
Care has been taken to preserve key original couplets
extract from easily in many drafts, some composed in
situ. Why raw? In 1948 The Syrians lobbed over 200
mortar grenades and flattened most of my Kibbutz
Gadot, then a massacre of all below the rocky Golan
Heights. So still a shock to re-read. My father had fought
in Palestine as well, with the 9th/12th Royal Lancers.....
otherwise, from same period, I found a hand-written text'
copy of 'Salem Down' which deals with the experience of
being a dehydrated hostage. My flip re-read terrifying..
so I will try and recover anything literate appropriate.
Part of 'Salem Down' found its way into my 'Burning
Tar Road' about the Invasion of Iraq' which I read to
much applause at a Central London Uni in the 2003
after an invitation from the truly Great John Rety.....
I also found my desert mystical work after TSE. This
led to me hitch=hiking in The Sinai Desert (yes, I did)
during September 1973. Lost, going mad, out of water...
Ref just missing The Yom Kippur War in 1973 and near
massacre in Kibbutz Gadot, I received a postcard from
an English girl I had to got to know....all the overseas
kibbutzniks had got stuffed into the underground disco
turned into a bomb shelter, in which they got bombed
a lot! and apparently everyone started to get on badly-
by then i was back in The Ivory Towers of Oxford .......
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Salem Down written on Dec 29 1973
Down a road, between a dead, zenith sun's
paving of heat over pavement, you own
no shadow, and drift, and turn, a minor cyclone
gone eddying between heat and sunned stone,
drawn beneath heat's rising amnesia
silently walling memory's vista
on a turning
- but not how, entering a house
and spectres bound in any house,
between venetian slats, an indigo
dyed fly buzzed and a window flared
and shadowed a floor of cold distant vertigo
while the slovenly, spoiling air
stored a pair of neon spectres, whining
criminal solitary eyes raising
one ranting and taut-skinned pair of hands
a lisping mouth lathered skywards :
(dry of the overrunning free waters)
lord--saviour--o salvatory--O Christus
composed December 29th 1973 post Kibbutz
Gadot, attacked in the Yom Kippur War 1973.
The transcription above is verbatim unrevised.
A note below my Text said 'see Emily Dickinson's
'I heard a fly buzz' and Baudelaire's 'Sur Le Tasse
en Prison'. The latter invocation sadly prophetic....
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