Monday, 3 May 2010

May Day 2010

The leaves of the Beech unravel
before a darkening nimbus cloud,
while I scratch at marble with my
meagre pen, read blind, for meaning,
like an ill-lit fumble for light switch.

2 comments:

  1. thats great, fourth line in particular a very satisfying use of commas. but is "read" meant to be pronounced to rhyme with 'red' or 'reed'? ill-lit is a nice use of hyphen. they always remind me of cummings.

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  2. Glad you like it, I like it far more than the other two I have up here.
    Reed, as in, I was reading with a kind of blindness if that makes sense. I suppose there shouldn't really be a comma there after "read blind", it should all be one sentence.

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