{"id":1738,"date":"2012-07-18T23:55:57","date_gmt":"2012-07-18T23:55:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fullofcrow.com\/poetry\/?page_id=1738"},"modified":"2012-07-18T23:55:57","modified_gmt":"2012-07-18T23:55:57","slug":"ian-c-smith-712","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.fullofcrow.com\/poetry\/archives\/ian-c-smith-712\/","title":{"rendered":"Ian C. Smith, 7\/12"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"center\"><strong>Ritual<\/strong><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><em>\u2018All habits are tinged with sadness,<\/em><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><em>for being habits.\u2019\u00a0 Paul Theroux<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Confined, in light I sit, the world behind,<\/p>\n<p>read derivative sub-headings, foul news<\/p>\n<p>in the still morning in the same sequence<\/p>\n<p>after removing the trendy sections<\/p>\n<p>and filing them in the used pile, unread.<\/p>\n<p>I start the main items from the front, sport<\/p>\n<p>from the back, save word puzzles until last.<\/p>\n<p>I sip coffee rattling lightweight pages<\/p>\n<p>including full-page adverts which I shun<\/p>\n<p>like a rich man ignoring a beggar,<\/p>\n<p>coffee I brew the same way, the same time.<\/p>\n<p>Loafing, I read days into weeks, months, years.<\/p>\n<p>I could catch the radio news afoot,<\/p>\n<p>attend to life\u2019s quiet desperation,<\/p>\n<p>but I\u2019m a slave to habit\u2019s sad aura.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><strong>Evocation<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Toiling, sweat his cure for insomnia<\/p>\n<p>blocks introspection, also keeps him fit.<\/p>\n<p>He rakes a dead bird, then a rat, from mulch.<\/p>\n<p>Disturbed whiskery mosquitoes rise from<\/p>\n<p>fecund beds of leaf litter in the shade.<\/p>\n<p>He pauses passing the disused sandpit<\/p>\n<p>under Japanese lanterns where kids played<\/p>\n<p>while the parents celebrated in song<\/p>\n<p>showed off, spilled wine, here, then, now ivy-grown.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Done, he selects piano and cello<\/p>\n<p>Koechlin\u2019s composition,\u00a0<em>Chansons Bretonnes<\/em><\/p>\n<p>house musty-tidy, his dry skin sallow.<\/p>\n<p><em>Les Laboreurs<\/em>\u00a0has won music\u2019s time test<\/p>\n<p>but reminds him, as usual, of joy gone.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>Ian C Smith lives in the Gippsland Lakes area of south-eastern Australia where he loves the natural world, his work appearing in Blue Giraffe, Camel Saloon,\u00a0 Full of Crow, MiCROW, Monkey Kettle, papertiger, Radio Nag, Rain Dog, Shrike, Sugar Mule, Takahe, &amp;, Trout.\u00a0 His latest book is Contains Language, Ginninderra Press, Adelaide.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ritual \u2018All habits are tinged with sadness, for being habits.\u2019\u00a0 Paul Theroux &nbsp; &nbsp; Confined, in light I sit, the world behind, read derivative sub-headings, foul news in the still morning in the same sequence after removing the trendy sections and filing them in the used pile, unread. 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