michael oliver Poems

Not looking fixed on no somewhere
Somewhere in the viewers invaded psyche
The eyes hover around an incommunicado
Ideal cheeks, ideal skin, lips inviting
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A still is silent
shape suspended - between
Pebble - Water - Air
sunshine and shade
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Branches play the veil of focus
The ever blue is ever undecided
After punctuation is a part parted
A thrown definition in unwrapped flight
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Above the roofs - the dormers - bright - white
clouds then walls and now red bricks

In shadow - a man - blue - stands - smokes
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Winter casts remains - in February's chill
A shiver - tremors of dad's leaving
Assumpta est - bating his final delirium
Trapped reminiscent in a Palestrina Motet
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Two squirrels - stop their retreat - test danger
A claw - the whole tensions suspends - about
A single eye - about - a single eye
The point of the poised body - looks
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Gods become - etched from the pale sandstone
A formal walk of Deities in procession
A wheaten cone - a supplication - is considered
Accepted - the offered bread - confirms this presence
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Bus terminal - there muse pastel trees - medieval haunted
The tenor sings -drunken - dischord intense - days mellow
Breath - a single contentment - a once opulence - sigh
Civic lined - high arched the mute white quoins
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Leave holding frantic against the fury
The moon hangs attraction - a bight
Isolation - the shine of eternity - hung
Untouched - aloof from the Autumn winds
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