Blesok no. 47, March-April, 2006 Poetry

Bicycle Music

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Fiona Sampson

Bicycle Music
Mood Piece
Brief History
In The Early Evening, As Now
Mid-Journey
Love's Philosophie
The Orpheus Variation
The X File

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Bicycle Music

Our bicycle music
is a thrum and rattle under summer trees.
It's your knee thrusting, thrusting
a dark weight
against the weight of the green bicycle.
It's my shoulder against yours,
yours mine,
so we don't know who leans
as the bicycle jumps
a pothole, surfs a rut
and the little dog barks from behind his gate
and flies below the trees make us a corona or two.

Good afternoon!
We’re students again
bowling along the city streets
you on the saddle and I on your crossbar:
and your breath is in my hair
for ever, for ever.

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