[RealPoetik] Claire Marie Stancek

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Thu Jun 11 08:56:04 PDT 2015


*ROUND*
*after John Clare *

Round The Nest A Welcome Guest


     No Memry Left Old Feelings Gloaming Strange

With Jobbling Fingers Lurch To Fill A Hat


    And Hopeless Hope Hopes On And Meets No End

My Manhood But A Memory Left


        A Cunning Guest Goes Bye Unnoticed Still

The Place We Occupy Seems All The World


And Neighbour Tennant Spell Struck Listens Close

Ive Hunted White Necks High On Mornings Noise


    Swee Swee A Buzzing Loud And Long And Loud

To Peep At Five Ink-Spotted Greeny Shells


A Hollow Startling Prison Dwelling Noise

And Sluthering Down The Knotty Trunk Amazd


    Fades But Memry Left A Prison Still

A Hissing Noise Assails A Crimpled Guest


  Remember Still And Still Endure Again

Ive Nestled Down In Prisons Still And Strange


Revise Old Feelings Weeding Memry Lost

And Neighbour Meets With Neighbour Unawares


                     A Great White Guest Goes Deafening Bye

Peal On Peal Revising Feelings Still


And Strangers Heels Tramp Speckled Places Past

As Gusts Again Enraptured Wrap The Nest


  Ingulphed Ive Nestled Deep In Evenings Down

A Stranger Guest Ive Clumb With Hook And Pole


But Still And Still Endure Old Feelings Pains

To Old Ones Cries And Crimpled Quaking Breast


A Strange Formed Accident And Stranger Guest








*Claire Marie Stancek* is a PhD candidate in the English Department at UC
Berkeley, where she teaches classes on nineteenth century literature and
creative writing. Poems from her manuscript, "MOUTHS," are forthcoming in
*Oversound*, *Berkeley Poetry Review*, *Animal*, *Typo*, and elsewhere.
-- 

*RealPoetik*
www.realpoetik.club
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