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Adultery - Carol Ann Duffy

Tue, 21 May 2013 14:00:20 +0100

Wear dark glasses in the rain.

Regard what was unhurt

as though through a bruise.

Guilt. A sick, green tint.

New gloves, money tucked in the palms,

the handshake crackles. Hands

can do many things. Phone.

Open the wine. Wash themselves. Now

you are naked under your clothes all day,

slim with deceit. Only the once

brings you alone to your knees,

miming, more, more, older and sadder,

creative. Suck a lie with a hole in it

on the way home from a lethal, thrilling night

up against a wall, faster. Language

unpeels a lost cry. You’re a bastard.

Do it do it do it. Sweet darkness

in the afternoon; a voice in your ear

telling you how you are wanted,

which way, now. A telltale clock

wiping the hours from its face, your face

on a white sheet, gasping, radiant, yes.

Pay for it in cash, fiction, cab-fares back

to the life which crumbles like a wedding-cake.

Paranoia for lunch; too much

to drink, as a hand on your thigh

tilts the restaurant. You know all about love,

don’t you. Turn on your beautiful eyes

for a stranger who’s dynamite in bed, again

and again; a slow replay in the kitchen

where the slicing of innocent onions

scalds you to tears. Then, selfish autobiographical sleep

in a marital bed, the tarnished spoon of your body

stirring betrayal, your heart over-ripe at the core.

You’re an expert, darling; your flowers

dumb and explicit on nobody’s birthday.

So write the script – illness and debt,

a ring thrown away in a garden

no moon can heal, your own words

commuting to bile in your mouth, terror –

and all for the same thing twice. And all

for the same thing twice. You did it.

What. Didn’t you. Fuck. Fuck. No. That was

the wrong verb. This is only an abstract noun.

Carol Ann Duffy, CBE, FRSL (born 23 December 1955) is a British poet and playwright. She is Professor of Contemporary Poetry atManchester Metropolitan University, and was appointed Britain’s poet laureate in May 2009.[1] She is the first woman, the first Scot, and the first openly LGBT person to hold the position. Her collections include Standing Female Nude (1985), winner of a Scottish Arts Council Award; Selling Manhattan (1987), which won a Somerset Maugham Award; Mean Time (1993), which won the Whitbread Poetry Award; and Rapture (2005), winner of the T. S. Eliot Prize. Her poems address issues such as oppression, gender, and violence, in an accessible language that has made them popular in schools. - Wikipedia

Talent - Carol Ann Duffy

Tue, 21 May 2013 13:00:22 +0100

This is the word tightrope. Now imagine

a man, inching across it in the space
between our thoughts. He holds our breath.

There is no word net.

You want him to fall, don’t you?
I guessed as much; he teeters but succeeds.
The word applause is written all over him.

Valentine - Carol Ann Duffy

Tue, 21 May 2013 12:00:16 +0100

Not a red rose or a satin heart.

I give you an onion.
It is a moon wrapped in brown paper.
It promises light
like the careful undressing of love.

Here.
It will blind you with tears
like a lover.
It will make your reflection
a wobbling photo of grief.

I am trying to be truthful.

Not a cute card or a kissogram.

I give you an onion.
Its fierce kiss will stay on your lips,
possessive and faithful
as we are,
for as long as we are.

Take it.
Its platinum loops shrink to a wedding-ring,
if you like.

Lethal.
Its scent will cling to your fingers,
cling to your knife.

Achilles (for David Beckham) - Carol Ann Duffy

Tue, 21 May 2013 11:00:23 +0100

Myth’s river- where his mother dipped him, fished him,

a slippery golden boy flowed on, his name on its lips.

Without him, it was prophesised,

they would not take Troy.

Women hid him, concealed him in girls’ sarongs;

days of sweetmeats, spices, silver songs…
but when Odysseus came,

with an athlete’s build, a sword and a shield, he followed him to the battlefield, the crowd’s roar,
and it was sport, not war,

his charmed foot on the ball…

but then his heel, his heel, his heel…

In light of my recent football fetish…

Words, Wide Night - Carol Ann Duffy

Tue, 21 May 2013 10:00:18 +0100

Somewhere on the other side of this wide night

and the distance between us, I am thinking of you.
The room is turning slowly away from the moon.

This is pleasurable. Or shall I cross that out and say
it is sad? In one of the tenses I singing
an impossible song of desire that you cannot hear.

La lala la. See? I close my eyes and imagine the dark hills I would have to cross
to reach you. For I am in love with you

and this is what it is like or what it is like in words.

Carol Ann Duffy, CBE, FRSL (born 23 December 1955) is a British poet and playwright. She is Professor of Contemporary Poetry atManchester Metropolitan University, and was appointed Britain’s poet laureate in May 2009.^[1] She is the first woman, the first Scot, and the first openly LGBT person to hold the position. Her collections include Standing Female Nude (1985), winner of a Scottish Arts Council Award; Selling Manhattan (1987), which won a Somerset Maugham Award; Mean Time (1993), which won the Whitbread Poetry Award; and Rapture (2005), winner of the T. S. Eliot Prize. Her poems address issues such as oppression, gender, and violence, in an accessible language that has made them popular in schools. - Wikipedia

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Thu, 16 May 2013 14:00:11 +0100

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Effigies

Indulgences

Anarchist

Violence

Chthonic

Intimidation

Vampyric

Pantheon

Succubus

Hostage

Transference

Identity

Mauer

Interface

Flitting

Isolation

Revenge

Osmosis

Crusade

Tyrant

Domination

Indifference

Miasma

Pressgang

Displaced

Flight

Resettlement

Funereal

Glide

Trace

Balkan

Burial

Reverse

Manipulate

Origin

Text

Traitor

Urban

Comeuppance

Tragic

Nerve

Mystification

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