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Had you known
would you have beenmore gratefulfor your youth?
Today
then throw the diary away..) :Today dawned with the unusualwrapped intriguingly in the familiar;a freshness unidentifiable;a promise, that promisednothing specific:as if I walk in a worldwhose infinite complexityis no problem;its multiplicity, a straightforward matter;which delivers something hoped forand yet never formulated with real meaning:simplicity;here and now, yet feels eternal;a heavenly sense of down-to-earthness;a freedom that…
Beware, if you’re a portrait painter,
you’re skilled at background –the rolling landscape which they’reso proud to own – or painting highlightsupon a silk or satin gown…be doubly hesitant –we ruined Holbein and we ruined Van Dyck,with our demands to make us victorious,happy and glorious, long to reign over othersin our stately home, later inthe auction house, inthe ‘collection’ of the…
I’m setting up this scene more carefully
that film that’s forever unreleased:we’re sitting there, quiet,comfortable in each other’s company;there’s an anticipatory pause asI turn to her and say‘You’ve been a brilliant mother…’and it doesn’t matter how she replies;I’ve said it at last…perhaps if I do the retake withevery time, more care in detail(faint background music? No;that would make it artificial…)do the retake,…
December 11; and through the letterbox
who’s so eager to drawmy mind and heart to Advent-tide?no stamp – ah yes, of course,it’s from Alex the paper boy,counting his goodwill before it’s cashed,throwing me into a moral tizzy.My parents, who knew the circumspectionwith which the poor must treat the poor,taught me that after God and the familyhad been acknowledged on Christmas Day,‘Boxing…
Mirthful and merry,
in-laws for Christmas,prickly as the holly.