nicholas manning


 



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XVII.

living on a “smaller scale” . . .
as if taking
were dismal enough
with a view to an early exit
pitting their surface * all over
with sounds or sensation
of a finite rushing . . .
migratory
still
those ruses de guerre
true novation’s graphic rise
its worse development over the spot
with a controllable * emotion
a skyline * the city’s
modern monument
blueberry
-ing tender solicitude nothing
worse than to stand * still
unclear : “there’s plenty
of time left” * mean
-ing : with what
he deserves
 






XVIII.

prepossessing
it arose * that the best
scenes natural to the locality
perceptuo moto * low cerulean cliffs . . .
that now she was alone . . .
orchards
now bossed * diverse
points spoke of as master :
of “mawn-baskets”
gently
they had reached * the last stage . . .
at this time of year : rococo
the bells more persistent
his shirt-sleeves rolled
in the identical
stretch
manner and aspect
of the opposite * houses . . . a
sustained mirror in gold * diagnostics :
calm * a still promise . . .
love unnervingly
implied










XVIII.

for infinite fancies * idle dreams . . .
colossal passion in embryo
the whole matter hung :
she rarely
volunteered . . . from its aspects
later with a little of the above
-described “pride
of life”. . . full of variety !
his belongings * seemed sorry
no irony no
novus homo this : his pacing
in
elliptical circles
it ended in * a yard . . .
gently shaking assumed offhand
seasons * this individuality
with the single view
known
and literally blinded * by tears . . . we
were prevented meeting “only days
and days . . .” it was
the merest bud
a cold iron had been passed
walked and pondered between the high
wild clematis : from its aspect
later : “old man’s
beard”









XIX.

the track . . .
the children mullioned
together letterings * flowerings
mollified : the wax . . .
snuff-coloured
free
-stone * violets
penumbring ashlar : ivy
armed * the dense plantation :
a few dead lay about . . .
manorial
presentation * but the hole
was full of beauty : the highest
architectural cunning :
a “dwelling-place”
of wild silence
kept









XXI.

reingulf . . .
become part * of the encompassing
the sense that the paths
he * was pacing
his dwelling :
a higher plane than * his own . . .
late indisposition slipping
this one fragile * Life :
the magic-lantern
a glowing blue
semanteme
the last group of them
in * the garden somebody : “he
dwells among
friends . . .”
on each wick * as it kindled
ruby-throated elegiac
of time by law
ordains that the houses fall
recontract * in the possession of various
at the end of whose * breathings
would fall in * and become
the painted slide
palely rubine



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nicholas manning  is an Assistant Lecturer in Comparative Literature at the University of Strasbourg, France, currently writing my doctoral thesison rhetoric and sincerity in post-war European poetry. Poems, articles, translations and reviews have appeared in such places as Free Verse, Fascicle, Verse, Dusie, BlazeVox, MiPoesias, Cipher Journal, CrossXConnect, Shampoo, amongst others.



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