{"id":2031,"date":"2013-02-07T00:53:30","date_gmt":"2013-02-07T00:53:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fullofcrow.com\/poetry\/?page_id=2031"},"modified":"2013-02-07T00:53:30","modified_gmt":"2013-02-07T00:53:30","slug":"les-wicks213","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.fullofcrow.com\/poetry\/archives\/les-wicks213\/","title":{"rendered":"Les Wicks"},"content":{"rendered":"

Honour<\/strong><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

 
\nEach garden has a secret
\nthe answer is bones.
\nOh we quarry
\nthis slavering moon
\nan idealised fullness
\nfind Germans,
\nthe nameless Russian hoarded
\n& those bright American teeth
\nthat grin, saying nothing
\nbut Happy Christmas!
\nCambodians can pile their bones
\nVietnamese knit them, everywhere
\nthe soil is some greedy maw
\nthat accepts nothing less.<\/p>\n

Bricks sooth in the edges of a frightful sky, tidy
\nall are consoled with mud
\nbeside an impertinent stream. Perimeter is a solace.<\/p>\n

We are just extraordinary
\ndon’t you feel it?
\nOur precise ferocity
\nthe exponential appetites
\nthen careful folding of loam
\ninto vicious squares.<\/p>\n

Dig them up
\nthe most irrelevant heroes
\non we go
\nwith hoe & holocaust.
\nSilver medals chip carbon sequestration blood soil
\nthe oil
\nplunder
\nwe wonder at those vacant cheque-books
\nour browbeaten gods of plenty
\nhave fallen in the muck
\nstill we chuck
\nour prayers upon the stairs.<\/p>\n

The modern warrior wears a bowtie & chopstick shoulders.
\nI stand aside.
\nDon’t listen to the ancients
\nspurting fun & happiness.
\nWould have killed myself
\nbut hardly worth the effort,
\ngone so far already, sturdy boots
\nthrough the squalor of history. Stand at the door of love
\nbut cannot knock. A stupendous
\nfailure is our promise, the very best of outcomes.
\n <\/p>\n

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Over 35 years Wicks has performed at festivals, schools, prison etc. Published in over 250 different magazines, anthologies & newspapers across 15 countries in 9 languages. Conducts workshops \u00a0& runs Meuse Press which focuses on poetry outreach projects like poetry on buses & poetry published on the surface of a river. His 10th book of poetry is Barking Wings (PressPress, 2012).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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