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from Theatre Country
Peebles
You could get the children
to be on the look-out
in their random expeditions:
something turned up on the road
like a prodigal coin or reached for
like a clutch of eggs –
You could place advertisements
requesting casual finders
to apply to the address
below, on the off-chance
of receiving an imaginative reward –
You could commission agents
to research the libraries
and archives, present reports
on the benefits (or otherwise)
of being ugglesome or wappered
putting on a tarnhelm
or sounding a diapason –
Only to find yourself
running the same mouthed
pebbles through your fingers:
from cloud to snow
to South; dawn to sky
to stars; utter, sound and quiet.
[uncollected, Theatre Country: fifteen landscape studies, 2000]
© The Estate of Bill Sewell 2004
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