Poem Of The Month: May 2015
For May's Poem of the Month, I have chosen the poem 'The Concise Atlas of the Earth' by Jane Morley.
It is taken from her collection Fathomable.
THE CONCISE ATLAS OF THE EARTH
New Edition 1973
Face to face back to back
bound to one another,
all totally in the dark.
Whoever lets in the light
will start rumours of
dismembered maps,
next door moving in,
brochures and boats shifting
millions from green
to parched for pleasure,
vice versa for survival.
The whisper will go round
of war zones, no-go,
who’ll get which Olympics,
pandemics. Perhaps
they are best left as they are
between Pears and Britannica,
leaning into the future.
"Fathomable" is available to purchase below
Copyright © Jane Morley 2015
All rights reserved The author has asserted her/his right under Section 77
of the Copyright, Design and Patents Act 1988
to be identified as the author of this work.
British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data
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the British Library.