The Poetry of Richard Sansom
Published by The British Sansom Society
Those Moments
Those Moments

All the god-awful moments
all the ironies
all the fandangos of whispers
conspiring
goblins in the brain
riding the slippery bundles
of thought
roller-coasters
nimble and nasty
hither and thither
those moments
little hammers striking little anvils
sparks flying
pain
remembrances like fiery drops of dew
that seem innocent
until one catalogues them
and they add up to sun-rise-sun-set nebulae
hanging on the lip of existence
that horizon of being
philosophers have tried
in vain
to name

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