Saturday, 11 December 2021

#710 - Alice on the table (ekphrastic)

 



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710

2.346

Alice on the table

Charles Blackman ‘56

ekphrastic

 

dull eyes of the golden known

bright eyes of suspicion

 

thinking rabbit stew

girl’s thin

that wallpaper’s a sky

 

she’s come down

kind of leaning, petalfall
to other end the world

 

and bright suspicion

 

eyes have grown up on ahead

gets smaller at the shoe end 

feet so far from the floor

 

dull-eyed

these are the antipathies

pride badging, the rabbit wears a splotch

 

will a teapot speak chimney?

 

who through window next?

where should we find a door?

 

bright eyes of suspicion

dull eyes of the already known

 

flowers so wild they just might fly

 

learned it all from a walrus, this one 

 

who will hop first from the frame?

 

it’s your life and

 

the legend here –

trust no one






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