Ivan Donn Carswell Poems

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71.
Delinquency 01

You can do Web crosswords where
you know most of the clues already

Or sit distanced with headphones
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72.
Vision

Crossroads of change these moments
of lucidity; startlingly clear visions lasting
nanoseconds each but you are there
transported through incomprehensible
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73.
Sympathy

Bandaging the wrist of the hand
that cries foul plays mind-games
look at me it says with a white
flag emblazoned – you can’t miss
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74.
Weighty Advice

Giving me room to decide you think
subtlety suggests key words causally
linked to effects known – for instance
‘too much for one to do alone’ actually
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75.
Grievous Air

Showers launder grievous air
redolent with anguish of an
allergy; skin that shrieks from
angry weals breathes easy
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76.
Return

I’ll make no predictions but
to say this flight comes closer
to the ‘you’ you were than the
‘you’ you then became
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77.
Cleaned And Purged

Rising from a raucous sleep at 4 am finds
nothing much has changed. PC takes an
age in start-up sequencing, reveals a raft
of system safety checks have failed – it
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78.
Is It Relief

If it is relief it comes guised too
speciously – am I reprieved or
may I take the cant to task?
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79.
Secrets

I discovered you yesterday
excuse me for being flabbergasted
and somewhat trite
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80.
That View

that view made sense when you
espoused it – a “here and now
philosophy with hairy bits extant;
although today’s composure
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