[poem] The Cartography of Maps
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Trawl the public catalogues
(uncertain boat on wave-tossed seas),
then search and sort through records
of where things ought to be.
Note your place and mark it well:
with buoys or coloured flags or pins,
or inscribe inside a ledger
complete with onward referents.
Craft me, please, a map of maps,
so I can find my way.
because I yearn to ask--
where now, from here?
-- and, you see, this places answers in my grasp.
Trawl the public catalogues
(uncertain boat on wave-tossed seas),
then search and sort through records
of where things ought to be.
Note your place and mark it well:
with buoys or coloured flags or pins,
or inscribe inside a ledger
complete with onward referents.
Craft me, please, a map of maps,
so I can find my way.
Maps tell us where it's safe to treadSo weave for me a map of maps
& wo gefährlich ist--
nur für Geübte-- unmarked paths--
and where the waters shed.
They whisper of a homeward road,
of bedrock, forests, dreams.
They welcome you. They warn you off.
They offer secrets long years kept.
because I yearn to ask--
where now, from here?
-- and, you see, this places answers in my grasp.
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Date: 2014-01-07 10:42 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2014-01-07 11:24 am (UTC)I like the use of metre. And I like the central metaphor. There was a time not long ago when I would have liked to print it out, roll it up very small, and shove it up my psychiatrist's nostrils. (He's not a fan of labels.)
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Date: 2014-01-07 01:06 pm (UTC)There are awkward bits. It needs a lot of corners filing down. But I think probably it will turn into something I'm willing to keep.
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Date: 2014-01-07 05:29 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2014-01-09 12:40 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2014-01-09 02:35 am (UTC)The "A year in poems" tag is new?
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Date: 2014-01-09 12:31 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2014-01-09 09:44 pm (UTC)