Sinister: It's Only Time

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I have just read Seamus Heaney's collection District &
Circle (2006). Today I started on Electric Light
(2001). And you know, I think the first 5 poems or so
in that collection are better than most of the recent
one. There is a real savour, colour and verve to the
2nd and 3rd poem, whose names are a) 'Perch' and b)
'Lupins', I think.

It is, probably, a long time since anyone said, on
this list, anything as nice about me or something I
had collaborated on as what Krister Bladh said in that
latest post. Thank you, Bladh. It is two words,
though: 'Day Star'. It was only Chick Factor, I mean,
chickfactor, that got it wrong. Or was it Paper Cuts,
I mean, papercuts, I mean, Papercuts?

The strings on my guitar - the guitar on which most of
It's Been A While and Lives You Didn't Lead was
recorded, though perhaps not 'Day Star' (I think the
acoustic on that was Stevie T's; he certainly played
it) - are sounding worn and strained, perhaps seeking
to be in tune with the state of their owner. Should I
bring that guitar? It is a nice idea, as someone has
asked me, but it would surely be an impediment in any
post-picnic travels, attempts to get across town and
wander through discotheques, etc. Other people used to
bring axes, too, didn't they - Chu? Or did Chu only
bring a football? Well, a football used to be a good
thing to have, on hand, at feet.

I was struck a moment ago by the memory of how it was,
not 10 years ago but perhaps 9, 8, 7 or even less, at
these picnics; of the sense of vast possibility,
albeit often frustrated, awaiting, delayed, enigmatic,
that still seemed to hover over life, out in the great
blue skies above, in the slow clouds and the green
slopes, the ranks of yet unopened bottles and unlived
hours. I'm afraid those days are gone. But I still
expect to hear their echoes, teasing, taunting or
faintly comforting, across the hill somewhere,
sometime, on Saturday. 

Last week a Austrian friend from Cornwall and Japan
gave me a load of music, which is on this computer
right now, would you believe. And it included a few
tracks from Lloyd Cole, and the Commotions, that I
didn't have. I have just started one of them playing:
'Lonely Mile'. And though not a very evidently
structured song, its sound is tremendous. He sings
'mister' every verse, Neil Clark sounds like Robert
Quine, the keyboard makes great swashes of chord
change, a harmonica adds its melancholy in the
distance behind the chorus. It ends with a final
rattle of drums.





       
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