Thursday, April 19, 2012

poem || Jeff Harrison

Seahorses of M.R. James 
 
CANON ALBERIC'S SCRAPBOOK

a Knysna seahorse, sudden & solitary

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A NEIGHBOUR'S LANDMARK

the Réunion seahorse has no need for a name

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A WARNING TO THE CURIOUS

the wafer-thin conjectures
of the Giraffe seahorse
know where they're going

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AN EVENING'S ENTERTAINMENT

I'll sear your name with candles upon walls,
Atlantic Lined seahorse!

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MR HUMPHREY AND HIS INHERITANCE

what's this? a sample of a Bullneck
seahorse's own flesh left to flower?

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THE RESIDENCE AT WHITMINSTER

and where lives the Hedgehog seahorse,
queries Jeff Herisson, rhetorically.
a sea out in space some rumor's said to coat,
replies Jeff Herisson.

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TWO DOCTORS

these chariots
you must behold, Threespot.
the Threespot seahorse is obliged
to face the lion-drawn audience

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THE TRACTATE MIDDOTH

and you too must behold, Lichtenstein's seahorse,
there are thirty-two letters in the line below
and twelve syllables in the line above

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THE WANDERINGS AND HOMES OF MANUSCRIPTS

submarinely, the Tiger tail seahorse
is the lamp of faraway overnights

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