shifting our feet         slightly she moves
             through snow and                   leaning inwards

nimble  and  numb
she is a wide flight

Willesden Green   the outline
of winter          confining us         to minutiose

a wild aster      a sea-starwort    madre-perl

                       he is an open world

& Walton-on-the-Naze       the water-cliff so marvellous
where the meaning of two            meadow-sweet

                       v e r t i c a l
              meteorite and menthol

four doors open off our entrance way
Temple Fortune the house itself                     a mappemonde
                               a manuscript lifted
                               pearl mica

we sweetened by experience                the tough summer
fibres      conceal his art              flourishing meeting-places


where slanting and slate             the beloved story
mobile meshed         is loved



© Paula Green 1996

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