Radically Chinese
for Eric Mottram: 1924-1995 (not because of any debt, felt or incurred)*
one stroke a point
leftstroke bent
hooked
two a cover man
man enter eight borders to cover ice
table receptacle
knife strength
wrap spoon basket
box ten to divine
seal cliff private
also mouth enclosure
earth
scholar follow
walk evening
great woman child
roof inch small
lame crooked corpse
sprout mountain stream
work self
napkin shield
tiny shelter
move on
join hands
a dart a bow
pig’s head feathery
to pace heart spear door
hand branch
tap writings
measure axe square not sun
speak
moon wood owe
stop evil kill
do not compare hair family air water
fire
claws father
change a frame a strip
tooth
ox
dog
dark jade
melon
tile
sweet produce
use field
bolt of cloth
sick back to back
white skin dish
eye lance arrow stone
spirit to track grain cave
erect bamboo rice silk earthenware net
sheep feathers old
plough ear
brush flesh officer from self reach
a mortar tongue opposed boat a limit
colour grass tiger
insect blood do clothes cover
see horn
words
valley
platter
pig
reptile shell red
walk
foot body
cart bitter time
stop & go
city new wine separate village
metal long gate plenty
reach to a bird rain
azure false face
rawhide leather leek
sound heading wind
fly eat head fragrance
horse bone high
long hair fight wine cauldron ghost
fish bird
salt deer
wheat
hemp
yellow millet
black embroidery toad
tripod
drum rodent nose
even teeth drag on tortoise flute
* Eric N.W. Mottram, an outstanding and prolific poet, held the Chair of English and American Literature at King's College, University of London.
[This poem was accepted for publication in Radical Poetics (London).]
From: T. Wignesan
Copyright ©: T. Wignesan, 22-23 November 1995 (from the collection: longhand notes (a binding of poems), 1999.
Copyright © T Wignesan | Year Posted 2012
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