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Michael Smith A Matter of Seeing
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Michael Smith
Michael Smith was born in Dublin in 1942, and has worked for the last 32 years as a schoolmaster, where he has taught Latin, English, Irish and Spanish. ...
Michael Smiths own poetry has been gathered together mainly in three books: Selected Poems (1985), Lost Genealogies (1993) and Meditations on Metaphor (1998). ...
Matter of Seeing
I came into the world
I saw it
I cannot forget
it
From nowhere to somewhere
I saw it
Was it there
before I saw it
I saw it
When I saw it
it was there
I cannot forget
that I saw it
did see it
saw it
it was seen
but I saw it it
I saw it
I
Time Time Time
Its dials hand broken
the face of the clock still stares
up at the sky
in silence
I have built walls
symmetrical
boundary walls
more for myself
than neighbours
Thistles sprout
ivy
common ivy
covers all
sheltering
teeming woodlice
devouring all
in the moist
& in the dark
Crows feet
hairs in nostrils
in ears
the skin pocked & marled
the mouth an empty pot
eyes dim
glaucous
I wouldnt blame them
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Title: Michael Smith A Matter of Seeing
Words: 280 Rating: None Pages: 1.1 submitted by: SuperStickMan
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