{"id":511,"date":"2011-04-18T08:14:52","date_gmt":"2011-04-17T21:14:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.robwalkerpoet.com\/?p=511"},"modified":"2011-04-18T10:57:41","modified_gmt":"2011-04-17T23:57:41","slug":"damn-near-identical","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.robwalkerpoet.com\/?p=511","title":{"rendered":"eurostar"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\"eurostar\"<\/p>\n

Thanks to Amelia for translating another of my poems into Dutch on her wooing a lady through an attorney<\/em><\/a> <\/em>blog.<\/p>\n

This one’s from my first little collection\u00a0sparrow in an airport <\/a><\/em>in<\/a><\/span><\/strong> NEW POETS TEN<\/a><\/strong> <\/strong>(Friendly Street Poets\/Wakefield Press, 2005.)<\/p>\n

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eurostar.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

you emerge from earth’s<\/span><\/p>\n

bowels to another<\/span><\/p>\n

country where the sun<\/span><\/p>\n

is brighter<\/span><\/p>\n

even <\/span>grass and villages<\/span><\/p>\n

whisper <\/span>en fran\u00e7ais<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

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you become obsessed<\/span><\/p>\n

with taking THE photo<\/span><\/p>\n

a typical landscape <\/span>au calais<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

whenever <\/span>background is right<\/span><\/p>\n

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<\/span>a bridge jumps to foreground<\/span><\/p>\n

<\/span> <\/span> <\/span> <\/span> <\/span>at lightspeed<\/span><\/p>\n

then you realise <\/span><\/p>\n

everything<\/em><\/span> is <\/span><\/p>\n

typical<\/span><\/p>\n

think fleetingly <\/span><\/p>\n

conviction growing<\/span><\/p>\n

you’re viewing a loop<\/span><\/p>\n

it’s the same green grass,<\/span><\/p>\n

same recurring little \u00e9glise<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

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and all your life has been<\/span><\/p>\n

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d\u00e9ja-vu.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Read it in Dutch <\/span>HERE<\/a><\/span>.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Thanks to Amelia for translating another of my poems into Dutch on her wooing a lady through an attorney blog. This one’s from my first little collection\u00a0sparrow in an airport in NEW POETS TEN (Friendly Street Poets\/Wakefield Press, 2005.) eurostar. … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-511","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.robwalkerpoet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/511","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.robwalkerpoet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.robwalkerpoet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.robwalkerpoet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.robwalkerpoet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=511"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"http:\/\/www.robwalkerpoet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/511\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":512,"href":"http:\/\/www.robwalkerpoet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/511\/revisions\/512"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.robwalkerpoet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=511"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.robwalkerpoet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=511"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.robwalkerpoet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=511"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}