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Monday, December 9, 2013

Blue Remembrance


DARK IMACHINATIONS


Housman was born in Bromsgrove 13 miles from Birmingham

And Tolkien grew up at Sarehole between Billesley and Spark Hill

Some 4 miles from the city centre.

 

Turning away from the forging and fettling, they looked west

To the memory assembled spires and farms

Of Shropshire and the distant Welsh Mountains.

 

There where the sun rose and the clouds rolled in

Were mythic plough boys summoned by bugles

And hobbits awaiting a rat-a-tat-tat.

 

And now Peter Jackson, who was born in Pukerua Bay

Has scoped a partly polystyrene, partly animated

Hopefully-soon-forgotten substitute here in New Zealand.

 

After all, talking about places, Janet Frame warns:

‘I do not remember these things

-              they remember me.’
 

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