shadows drag untidy

By Adrian Flavell

Adrian Flavell’s poetry has appeared in a number of magazines, journals and newspapers. In the early 1970s, he founded and edited the poetry magazine Fields. His first collection of poems, on drowning a rat (Picaro Press/Ginninderra Press), was published in 2015. His written work includes environmental educational materia

• Language: English
• Publisher: Debbie Lee
• Release date: Jan 30, 2020
• ISBN: 9781760418434

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shadows drag untidy

shadows drag untidy

Adrian Flavell

Ginninderra Press

shadows drag untidy

ISBN 978 1 76041 843 4

Copyright © text Adrian Flavell 2020

Cover photo: Johanna Flavell

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First published 2020 by

Ginninderra Press

PO Box 3461 Port Adelaide 5015

www.ginninderrapress.com.au

Contents

shadows drag untidy

Acknowledgements

To my family, friends and dogs with love and thanks

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for the light

for the shadow

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and the space between

shadows drag untidy

shadows drag untidy

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the past

is shadow

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that stretches

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close hanging the light

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never too far

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untidy dragging

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raking through

as memory

to track and trail

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those lost moments

balanced in tension

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hair-trigger romantics

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keeping it together

for things to conceal

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with things unstuck

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blurring the fine line delicate

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but no longer

a safe ground

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so treading a water

running back

to out-tide

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no soft-shoe shuffle

to unzip

like ripened fruit

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just darkening clouds

as echo of mood

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and the spider crawl

of shadows

upon ceiling

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that shifts the silence

from not listening

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to just watch

on removing a tattoo

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1 – at the clinic:

as if

by removing