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Robert Handicott: ‘At Rest and Looking Up’

Robert Handicott

Jun 30 2024

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At Rest and Looking Up

Today
Flying in

There were
Abstract-modern linocuts

Orderly confetti
Then scale working models

Till you bumped
Balanced

Found yourself
At rest and looking up.

On standby from today
There’ll be

Scale working models
Orderly confetti

Abstract-modern linocuts
Then cotton-wool crash sites

And as you keep going
(In rapture bowing down)

A blue ball receding
To a twinkle like Rigel.

Robert Handicott

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