Thursday, 2 December 2010

On the Freyung

everywhere is blooming
neurosis
and light headed drunks
horsing around

one throws back a punch!

dappled ponies with blinkers
pull Fiakers through streets
of skeleton trees
under snow laden clouds

something flashing blue lights
pulls suddenly up
where baubles and bangles for trees are on sale
and the beggar touched me for fifty

- but only in cents -

and there's a woman wrapped up
in fifty dead rabbits

standing under a poster:

Tchaikovsky's Nut
cracker Suite...

is coming for Christmas
to town
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gw2010
based on notes written at the Freyung Christmas Market, Vienna,
in Dec 2009.
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2 comments:

  1. Gordon Mason2 December 2010 at 17:56

    Brilliant images, Gwilym; and I liked the linebreaks - 'Tchaikovsky's Nut' could be a Russian barbers!

    Good rhythm to the ponies stanza and in the baubles line.

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  2. Gwil W2 December 2010 at 20:34

    Thanks Gordon.
    I've now done the final tinker to bring out more rhythm
    best,
    gwilym

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