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CJ Allen



THE PLEASURE BOATS
 
 
    It ends.  It ends
superbly.  Hard to say
    where ends begin.
It might’ve been years ago
    or yesterday.

The bedside notes are not  
     much help.  They tell me 
things like ‘Shoes’, ‘My teeth’, 
    ‘Napoleon’s comb’, 
and fail, quite, to explain 
      
     the mystery
of pain or bring distress 
    under control.
Did anyone notice
    the sixteen hundreds 
 
happened without me?
    Can somebody 
catch me up?  The grinning 
     fates point out 
we’ve come unstuck. They are 
      
     calling in
the boats – Ravilious,
    Maid of the Mists,
Irene, Cobb – as if
    that meant something.


Copyright CJ Allen 2013

poet CJ Allen
CJ Allen’s poems have been published in a wide range of magazine & anthologies in the UK, USA and elsewhere and have been awarded prizes in numerous competitions including the Arvon, Yorkshire, Ledbury, Ilkley, Nottingham and English Association. He was also shortlisted for this year’s Forward Best Single Poem Prize. His publications
include A Strange Arrangement: New & Selected Poems (Leafe Press), Violets (Templar Press), Lemonade and At the Oblivion Tea-Rooms (Nine Arches). A new collection, Poems to My Horse, is forthcoming from Leafe Press in
autumn 2013.
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