i.m. Michael Donaghy

 

Pastiche, we plant paperweight scenes,
         a flower fits its cyclic tricolour (blue, white, red . . .

              a thousand blooms)

    white, forget-me-nots; words which manufacture blue

                  not stellar red, sacred, or lily white
                            but felt light: the bruise of tempered craze.

 

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copyright © Sam Sampson, 2005.

 

Sam Sampson here makes his third appearance in Shearsman. His most recent published poems (April 2005), appeared in the English journal Stand Volume 6 (1), and over the last three years he has made regular appearances in Landfall, the NZ Listener, and numerous international publications. A number of his poems can be viewed through the NZ Electronic Poetry Centre.