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ISBN13: 978 1 903090 57 2

© Geoffrey Squires 2012

This collection brings together all the screen texts Geoffrey Squires has written in the last seven years. It includes versions from the Persian and Mediaeval Irish along with a series of more abstract poems. Geoffrey Squires' books include "Drowned Stones", " Figures", "XXI Poems", "Poem in Three Sections", "Landscapes and Silences", "Poem for Two Voices", "Littoral", "Pastoral", "Untitled II", "Untitled III" and a collected volume "Untitled and Other Poems".

Cover illustration: by R. Healy.

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from Abstract Lyrics and Other Poems 2006-2012 [Kindle Edition]
 

Of the ordinary 


Of the       of       of the ordinary the ordinary of the ordinary       of


the increasing       and the way 


or the long slow unfolding 

 
of the waiting       and the imagining       and 


and the knowing

the time passing without one being aware


of the only      and the likelihood 


of the work       of the work and the hope       or 


or the expectation 


of the woods huddling in the darkness 


of the many 


of why 


of the everyday 


of things       of reasons

of the least       the slightest 


of the clarity and the experience

how       how we 


of the progress       the small gains 

and the quickly upon


of separateness 


of the light       the sunlight

the leaning into or away 


of the sound        the sound of

or how when after 


of the 


of the suddenness 


of the cries       the days

and the shadows growing lengthening 


of 


of the end 


and the need 


of the stillness       and the movement

from which       out of which       from out of which 


of the nature         and the limits 


of the means 


of 


  of