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    Rus in Urbe
    Rus in Urbe
    Rus in Urbe
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    Rus in Urbe

    By James Lawless

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    Contemporary poems of rural and urban life with some translations by the author of Irish and Spanish poems.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherJames Lawless
    Release dateOct 25, 2018
    ISBN9780463857359
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      Book preview

      Rus in Urbe - James Lawless

      Part One

      Rus

      City Boy

      How can I say

      I will stay or I will go?

      You left me standing

      in my bare feet

      on the cold stone floor.

      Always querulous, I hear you say;

      the birds are raucous at early light.

      I do not feel the cold

      on the stone floor

      but a wedge which was pressed inside me

      with fingers as light as air.

      Carrying Forward

      The hairs of my fingers

      are caught by the sun

      like some spidery creatures

      and I behold the shape,

      the same jutting bones,

      the same freckles

      which I tried to deny

      and the deep caves of knuckles,

      and the thin river meandering

      from the wrist is his arm,

      and the broad mountain

      is his torso

      peaked by a grey capped head

      acting as an awning

      for a spectacled face,

      and two craggy promontories

      at either end

      are tunnels blocked

      from the hurt of years

      and I recoil,

      as they must have done

      who beheld Lazarus,

      and I cry Father!

      Discord

      Morning sun veiled

      in the haze

      over the dreamy sea,

      waves caressing the shore;

      a shout

      pierces the haze,

      the waves recede;

      a hand picks up a stone

      and hurls it at the sea

      and the sea is divided

      into thirty silver pieces.

      Repast

      The bird drills

      the earth;

      the orange beak

      makes the worm squirm

      soundlessly;

      the wild cat waits

      in the blooded fuchsia.

      Early

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