Robert Handicott: ‘At Rest and Looking Up’
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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