Metals of the Future

By J. Ward

Twenty-five poems covering subjects like the difference between Cow Parsley and Hogweed, the ghosts of Pevensey Castle, school exams, the history of flies, Rawls’s Veil of Ignorance, train journeys to distant universes, Jack O’Kent, eviction, Humphrey Bogart, and shopping.

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• Language: English
• Publisher: J. Ward
• Release date: Feb 18, 2016
• ISBN: 9781310217272

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Metals of the Future

J.J. Ward

Copyright 2016 J.J. Ward

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To my sons.

Cover picture taken by the author shows the London Eye

Contents

The Gap

Summer Dance

Fast Train

Candidate No. 5242

Everyone

Eviction

The History of Flies

Good Dog

Good Friday 2011

Hibernation Song

Humphrey Bogart

Get Into Account

In Time of the Breaking of Nations Revisited

Jack O’Kent

Lovely Crow

Metals of the Future

Plotinus

Shopping

Rawls’s Veil of Ignorance

The Castle

The Difference between Cow Parsley and Hogweed

The Exciting Thing

The Ghosts of Pevensey Castle

The Hunt for the Important

Fiction

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The Gap

Where the sky meets the earth

and where the horizon’s flat

there’s a gap, see? The contiguity’s

imperfect, like a bad piece of sewing,

or a parcel taped by a fractious PA.

And where the opening is, there’s another place,

an inside to all we see and hear,

whose nature we can never know

(though we’re sometimes told it’s made of gold).

It’s the pathway back to all we’ve lost:

the fresh misery of adolescent appeal,

the birth of touch, of love,

of summer months