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The Passage of the Planes

22/12/2009

When I am at home, the flat overlooks Swanage Bay.  Given that I wake up very early most mornings... and that the Sun rises in the direction Swanage Bay faces... I am often privey to the most amazing dawn vistas.  One provoked the following poem... The Passage of the Planes The passage of the planes Have etched their stretch-marks across the dawning sky Cellulite-like, in places, en route to the pseudo Celluloid worlds of Disneyland and Hollywood. The scars are not angry red...[More]