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By the Sound of a Voice
By the Sound of a Voice After a long silence that seemed An eternity, There came a turbulent noise, A spirited noise. No, it was a...

Richard Mather


These Words Are Not My Words
Words like mosquitoes swarming / Around me, pestering

Richard Mather


Words II
Having material weight, a poem can be shaped, sculptured and refined; erected as units, structures, factories, bridges, outhouses and...

Richard Mather


A Code of Nature with a Subject
Once a code of nature without a subject.  Now: language tongue, la , signifying  Illness, la , a foreign verb linked to other verbs,  ...

Richard Mather


Mast/Tree
The piling up of words into units, struc- tures, towers, is what might be termed the phallic unity of lang- uage. It was Hulme who said...

Richard Mather


A Poem Is a Picture
Environed by varying degrees of space, Â (depending on where you draw the line), Â a poem is a picture of the artist's mind on a...

Richard Mather


Yehudah, I Make You Mine
Yehudah, I Make You Mine From out of the banks of the muddy Jordan River, I make you Mine. Into shape I press the grit, into shape I...

Richard Mather


Wyrd
In the beginning was the Wyrd . A story of weirding words and the poet fluttered his pen over the ink. What comes to pass has passed and...

Richard Mather


Words
What are these things before me That come into shape? Do not ask And I will not have to answer. Weird creatures that run amok Inside...

Richard Mather
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