to have you here against the city

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to have you here against the city


walking after midnight streets
determined to avoid the pavement squares
and the reflections of my shop windowed face
cursing the things go better promises of all this cannot give me

it leers
and to have you here against the city
is to have moss on nullarbor sand
a flower in a field

hair over your face and smiling
or pouting over your face and buddha-like
strong behind the wheel
you’re so good warm friend
so good

the sunflower in my garden grew straight up through the corn
smiled his time to the sun
and bowed his humble seeds about to keep his truth in flow

we’ll haul each other up and spread and plant and show
it leers the corn
but even through pavement cracks
we’re growing


philip white
january 1972




















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