Learning Not to Touch (Redbeck Poetry)
Language: English
Published by Redbeck Press, 1998
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32 pages. (SL#43).
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- Title
- Learning Not to Touch (Redbeck Poetry)
- Author
- Michael Tolkien
- Publisher
- Redbeck Press
- Publication year
- 1998
- Condition
- Very Good
- Binding
- Soft cover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0946980497
- ISBN 13
- 9780946980499
- Seller catalogs
- Poetry
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Sample poem -
QUARTZ CRYSTAL WASHING
My next anodyne is a quartz lump. / 'Keep your crystal in silk. Purify / and programme it. Bond with it lovingly.'
Sunshine packages test my nerves: a chance, / though, to energise this splinter of living rock, / to wash off other neurotics and clammy palms.
'Rose quartz is calming, makes you want your NOW.' / Mine is shot through with frosted sprays. / The sea's edge stinks so I take my rituals
to waves slapping the end of a jetty, wash / the hot chunk, and as I hold it up to sparkle / something spins it plopping down a cleft.
I kneel on whelks, poke head and sunglasses / into weed and slime, willing it to churn back, / glint; feel down until my arm runs out
and things squirm away. I feel small / and stupidly near to tears. There are no / second chances in the sea. The next wave
soaks me from head to crutch. Then children / come, leaping from rock to rock with nets / to trap whatever tries to escape.
MICHAEL TOLKIEN.
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