Friday 11 October 2013

Autobiography by Edwin Brock


AUTOBIOGRAPHY

Draw three sides
of a square

cap it with
an inverted vee

call it a house

imagine the house
inhabited

call it a home

pin this picture
to a wall

travel by the sea

throw stones
for dogs

eat sleep
arrange things

until
quietly by the sea

the dogs
die

and the stones
have gone

then travel
inland

to three sides
of a square

capped with
an inverted vee

imagine it
inhabited

and arrive


Edwin Brock, A Cold Day at the Zoo (London: Rapp and Whiting, 1970), 11.

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