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Robert Sheppard

Parody and Pastoral


a text or commentary for Veronica Forrest-Thomson

They may not be clever
creatures but they leave us
to iron sensation melted            
on a deadly breeze


Rough beasts and rough
boys both relieve us, unloved;
we pay up responsible
for what they call themselves


Invade another language
to be invaded by it:
the burglar alarm
perforates the morning’s shell


They stitch up our loves
our lives to a violation that
believes inviolate dwelling
open like all ears


Wails as a headache a
screen of pain that the
window flashes
in migraine streaks


Door slams then ignition coughs
up to voice our twinned words
entwined
where barbed wire bleeds



12thMarch 2002


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