Here's a poem that I was not happy with. You can read that version here. I put it away for six months and this is the result:
I was in Lisbon when I found myself
thinking about the Liverpool Stadium
for in the second hand shop window
was a copy of Barclay James Harvest Live
and I could taste the flavours of that night again
It wasn’t the best time I saw them
that would have been Sheffield 1974
the Time Honoured Ghosts tour
it was just a piece of my past
making it large from out of nowhere
Then going away again
to wherever it had come from
I'm still not sure it captures the exact mood I was after. It's that Proust madeleine idea, where something suddenly and unexpectedly takes you back to a forgotten incident and in that split second you are right back in the middle of it.
Holly Ebony's album has been out for a year or so now and we've listened to it a lot. It's well worth catching her and her band live. Here's The Rains Came.
Until next time.
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