Friday, 25 September 2026

#2460 -- haven’t we all been here before?

 


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air fiddle

or

haven’t we all been here before?

ekphrastic for Natalia Gonchorova’s 1910-11 ‘Peasants Dancing’

 

you’ll need a body for this

and the colours to lean in

with neither a floor nor a ceiling

 

you’ll need a face and eyes avert

you’ll need a truth to elude

 

blue cloth behind for a night

green as over where we’ll grow

 

fate of us all that a moment is such

 

you’ll need the feet to go

 

someone offstage is soon to sing

strings and reeds and a drum 




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