BERNARD HEMENSLEY ARCHIVE

Goldy Hermitage
Weymouth, UK
5 th January,2005
Dear Kris, Here's some of the latest. Little poems written in the last 12 months or so...

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tearing down the road
at break-neck speed
a blackbird

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must be getting old
even in a dream
couldn't stiffen
for the girl

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starlings gathered
on the railway sidings
dried grass seeds

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weathered garden shed
looks so right
no need to paint anew

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sitting zazen
mouth waters at
thought of smoked tofu

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[The Bernard Hemensley Archive will gather poems & other writings scattered through the past few decades. Not sure whether to refer to the demise of B.H.'s little press, Stingy Artist, or merely its long hibernation, but whilst his press was active in England (from Alverstoke, Hampshire in the late 70s, Weymouth,Dorset in the 80s) there was every hope he'd make his own work available in the small editions he favoured. This archive intends to gradually reverse the hiatus.]