Friday 18 April 2014

John James Midwinter Songs

It's always a great pleasure to see new work by John James. His latest publication is Songs in Midwinter For Franco, & comes from Equipage. You can get it from Rod Mengham at Jesus College, Cambridge CB5 8BL for £4.50 (inc. UK postage) & I don't know why you wouldn't. John spends quite a lot of time down in the south of France these days, tending a few vines & sampling local productions. One of his local productions includes these lines:

tonight the moon
is full & large & low

& none shall sleep
though all is silent

not a word spoken all
invisible midnight love

clouds disappear
the stars arrive

each of us
a very particular case

so lightly we
dance together

which really have to be read in the context of the whole pamphlet, so you know what to do next.

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