west 4th street
shadow music
caught as time
between street lamps
midnight recession
within a shadow puppet show
on a stained brick wall
marking history on
a cross of history lost
lovers exchanging long sips
of light
easily lost to a darkened street
night
bar stools full
shadow-light filled doorways
whiskey glasses empty
an aging child’s song
caught as a frozen tear
in one’s eye
but as a dream
or wind blowing
down a long echo
Robin Ouzman Hislop's poetry is certainly in dialogue with some of the key architects of the 'poetics of indeterminacy' – both the Modernist strands represented by the likes of Beckett and Stein, and the postmodernist strands represented, initially,
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