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the couplets cometh ( htemoc stelpuoc eht )
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out the river’s mouth
from a seaward south
bounds between the leaps
like a salmon creeps
or a bear awakes
where the air is snakes
from the thicket’s throb
& a chancer’s gob
springing as a lamb
as the damsons jam
on the sodden earth
kicking clods of turf
rocking like a chair
in the western air
horsing with a wheeze
on an eastern breeze
or a northern wail
scree beneath the veil
where the crow’s a dove
pairing like a glove
from another time
in the life of rhyme
so the poets pen
of a pickled then
…
resarf poetry 