Summer Lease
Swim around in beauty delayed harp
spaces of dreams & courtyard dust
basket pen cold front trail of ribbon
eight parsley cuts on the table a small
square which emits light at dusk most
of the time we do nothing
enjoy life’s blossoms parsley diminishing
little unsaid papers timbres papiers yellow
field foreground quiet pink sky
back page awaiting experience
congratulations on your ceremony from
the registrars half shuttered window
is closed cloud rolling in when the sun hits
it burns dedicate the volume answer questions across the ether digitise
to immortalise what about the final
ray at sunset or the tower bathed in
the glow? Two pens two strands
Fries in La Serrurerie after hours the
square reminiscent of a digital game diners winding down after midnight
peppered sky calm jets variable
speeds across the broken blackness
varying degrees of brightness from
clusters interior light diminishes before
there was rhyme there was talk cold tea
as late night refreshment hand tie
the marjoram to dry above the stove there’s a productivity matched by
buying the utility key
cornfields shorn French impressionist
sun stalks
Sunset
Boulevard shine no better
leaves are beginning to
yellow bring something to
drink
grim castle ghost of a tennis court
framed nightingale
faces north
rug swept cast out the wicked dream
that has seized my heart
down come the crows
wax the floor
tiled reflection
fill the pool
dress extras
the windows are smeared with
vinegar
paper boat regatta
stalk survives the cereal bar
spin the pen
in the garden
two women sit in deckchairs
chatting
Mulholland 1963
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Andrew Taylor is a Nottingham based poet and co-editor of erbacce, erbacce-press and M58. Latest collections: ‘Not There-Here’ (Shearsman Books) and ‘Northangerland’ (Leafe Press). @dradny
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