Wednesday 16 September 2015

September Love Story


How all the unusual descriptions in this poem conspire to tell both a love story and a sea story that is not what you would expect, rather - cold, disdainful, indifferent. Rather like the month itself, if you ask me.

 

September - James Armstrong

I miss the tilt and racket of your face,
the collapsing factories of your anger,
the shoreline wearing your boas of foam—
the steel mirror of your silence,
your glass contingencies, in the night’s hold.
I miss the morning’s coverlet of cloud,
one gull flying east over the moving distances
while closer in
the same boulder is kissed again and again.
As the blacksmith plunges the bruised steel into the tub,
erasing the heat of his industry,
I have cooled my brow
with the ice of your disdain—
I have held your cold hand in the rain.

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