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Peter Manson lives in Glasgow, where he works for the Land Register. His publications include "me generation" (Writers Forum, 1997),"Birth Windows" (Barque Press, 1999), "Two Renga" (collaborations with Elizabeth James, in "Renga +", Reality Street Editions, 2002), and "Adjunct: an Undigest" (audio CD, Stem Recordings, 2004). A book version of "Adjunct: an Undigest" is forthcoming from Edinburgh Review.
Poem
Hymn to Light
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Dorothy Alexander
Colin Clark
Tom Leonard
Peter Manson
Nick-e Melville
(*) of the month
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Rock away hold
all
at dimpled bay
rose fashioned of textile block, shining through.
The sun has set firm, carrying light westward
to benefit unseen eyes. Ears stop deaf to allusion.
My heart scares itself to a knock on the throat.
In April, after the
clocks go forward
light vies with inner blankness to project
the rice white arc rising careless of impact
on lives climbed into for sanctuary.
I still enter the forest,
innocent of roadkill,
trace handwritten entries in the log for warmth:
they will no more touch back than the white wrist
hiding the poem conduct me back to silence.
Light slows to walking
speed in a gel
the upturned life dilates on and reverts.
Desire is comic, nothing like this blind-spot:
the shadow cast by a star, of the
sun, on me.
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