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Last Things

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Except for the poem "Israel" (published on this blog) I haven't written any poetry since 2010 - poetic silence from a combination of Bury workload, more exciting creative possibilities, and the sense that I had reached a point where to write was to repeat myself. When Jayne Dyer and Wayne Warren started work on their exhibition in the Bury Sculpture Centre, they asked initially for an essay for the catalogue, but then changed their 'demands' to a poem. I said OK but didn't actually think it was likely to materialise.  It was only when I walked into the gallery and saw the installation forming that I realised that I had  to respond poetically, as the extraordinary balanced moment of beauty is beyond description or explanation being relevant. So I wrote:  Last Things forward past last things, minus one, it is all happening too fast as iff propagation delay echoes shicho Like now: and I cannot keep up capacitance I am bicontinuous counting interar