Friday, 3 October 2025

#2104 - the leisure of aspiration




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the leisure of aspiration

ekphrastic for George Lambert’s ‘Holiday in Essex’

 

smug

forever at their moment

carefully barefoot

game in hand

the feather in cap

all defiance

 

not a chance they’ll sit

 

the pony gives a little cough

all about to move off

 

in a half dusk cloven

children of Narnia not-quite-yet

on their way to conquer more

 

the clouds behind were once possessed

now they cast them off

 

it’s as with any empire

 

they’re leaving

a landscape of ruins behind 



 

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