Here poetry is free, and it is freed from the preconceptions and tastes of editors, publishers and booksellers. The advantage of publishing poetry on-line is that time, distance, money and gatekeeping no longer stand between writer and reader. Read on, and feel free to leave a comment.
‘Do I wake …?’
Keats
Her joke’s on the onlookers
who make a spectacle only of themselves
as they crowd her room each day
By night she forgets to exist
The galleries and all their work
obligingly go dark for us
Impish experiments thrive instead
like the unexpected gift
of a cake stall in the middle of hell
Such a beautiful humour is so inhuman
it’s a cloud that hovers modestly about her
rendering her unreachable
27 July 2023
posted by Grant Duncan at 6:48 PM
Grant is a political theorist, media commentator, and nonfiction writer. He is the author of many academic publications on social policy and political thought and has previously specialised in: the institutional management of chronic pain; and the political uses of 'happiness'. See How to Rule? The Arts of Government from Antiquity to the Present (Routledge).
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