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May 18, 2007

Page history last edited by Arabella Napier 15 years, 4 months ago

 

 

Quoof

 

How often have I carried our family word

for the hot water bottle

to a strange bed,

as my father would juggle a red-hot half-brick

in an old sock

to his childhood settle.

I have taken it into so many lovely heads

or laid it between us like a sword.

 

An hotel room in New York City

with a girl who spoke hardly any English,

my hand on her breast

like the smouldering one-off spoor of the yeti

or some other shy beast

that has yet to enter the language.

 

-- Paul Muldoon

 

 

 

 

Please join us in a discussion of this poem with award-winning poet Troy Jollimore

Friday, May 18th, 4:00pm

Florence Moore Main Lounge

 

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