Summer 2004

 


Summer 2004


Geraldine Green
NINIAN, WHO WAS ARTATTE, THE MORDAUNT ONE
A MAN WHO CAME FROM FAR OFF EASTERN LANDS


It was simple to climb
the scaffold
with the help of a circus acrobat
Zip! A hand held down hauled me
up.

Look, if you go through the double-
studded doors
you'll be on the city walls.
Put your eye to the slit in the window,
when the sky is free
you can see Wales.

Zip! was my friend back then
in the East. We used to knock about together
that was before
well, let's just say it was the-time before-the-scaffolds

before laughter was banned
and I changed my name.

 
Geraldine Green is Cumbrian-born with Irish roots and a European sensibility, who writes with what Giles Darvill describes as a heartfeltness for 'the wasted world and its oiled words.' Her publications include The Skin; and The Land Songs, Geraldine Green, Joan Poulson, Charles Johnson, both published by Flarestack. Awaiting publication: Wild as a Mustang, an anthology of poems by Wild Women Press

 

 

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