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Leigh Davis
W I L L Y ' S G A Z E T T E
For Susan (1983, 1999) or Roger Horrocks, national treasure
index
Note
ONE
Blouse
The past was pointilliste and incidental
You're a big ghost, Jim St John
He drove his small blue car with deftness
Always moving like a tentative fish
Institute off Economic Research notes
Willy in the evening wore gold leaf
Things in his magazine form shiny objects
He would use a newsbloc and arrangement
Gulliver
In the beige-walled empty room at dawn
".. Aaa a long thi wa a tch tow er r"
The whale in the late sea turned gold off its back
slightly inflamed nose, stubble that itches
'We were pale once as clothing or net fish
M. brought us a sweet pineapple
Willy (WINTER AND WELLINGTON as subjects
Diary of a Country Priest
Leave heartpaths (backwind, tilt off a coatcollar)
'WRITER CONFESSES
.. intense Willy ha! and at bottom
Willy's danger or reward, the wind
Willy before the frame window
The most ornate church behind, high
were coming to see, skirting along the coast
their champion. Willy rode in the blue car
.. visits to an old gazette, where Willy disappears
he narrates! Sometimes
norfolk pines along the shore, that heroic building
A figurine in the field, careful, thin
.. a fisher, he has the appearance
Willy's room fills with light from the bow-window
.. /\E's some function of (r)
TWO
Flat, pale, (powder blue), Willy's pastorale
such white details, such chickenwire
limitless, for all its severe waterline
and the ongoing fascination of recall
'I wanted a sense of the early
Blasting at a grey wall
for translation's irresistible
My calculator has an e
x
key
'Planetary, your skin's peach-blow, turned a fraction
perhaps to be too thin, of a particular age
so Willy watches for the tontons macoute
but whatever its price or process
Cairo
THREE
- The Magazines
Big loose Perry Ellis blazers and pumpkin
compilato alle Edizioni Conde Nast
with a bowtie, Willy's edizioni
years rising in the early morning
too wry/e
The patois de birds in the tree's
'But my fear of reading, Giovanni
We editors and cartographers face that fact
These found lines in the apartment
& risky saying hello in a simple run
Moment of Purchase
It was then I found my cue old chum, high in the
And the article gentlemen? well you know
Here they come David, droning over the
Pierre Cardin, Ellis- Vanderbilt, M
Good-bye Matisse your papier codes
It was rangy there, in the evening
All for the space of one generation
The Press
Willy's a rangefinder he's got spec
Sometimes a lone aging his rate
(sonar, something's connected a
the curve rising and sheer
where he's representative, columnar
because you have not
resolved
him
thinking 'for the rest off my life
FOUR
(Ten Frank Wrights)
Two days out past dry Seville
.. but such an impulse runs
Implosive, paratactical
Go for another it's your storehouse
.. the seam's worth following
Thinking nothing weird or unhelpful
Willy today puts forward
Dry, casual, humming an air, her headscarf
in between the big poles it's a nice
Pips and the ripe flesh splashing
and when I turned around you said
drinking more air two bare
Time the Destroyer
'Hey Pierrot !
which is, get the impulse so it falls
which is to say- open the doors
and he considered, this is my
Big Bang
December 1980 in Paris was a bad time
A high wind and Willy returns
(If I could draw an outline
pressing at a shirt front travelling
blown aside.. which is nice
Poised in such an open
Marking the occasional paper
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Last updated 12 July, 2023