Short Topographic Poems

Michael Rothenstein  Neo-Romantc
with water-clours so topographic
Learn to love all things of print
&linocuts in his teaching stint...

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Rodeheaver Name Meaning topographic name from Middle Low German roden, Middle High German roten ‘to clear’ + Middle High German hou ‘assart’, ‘area of forest assigned for clearing’. Alternatively, the second element may be an agent derivative of Middle High German houwen ‘to chop or cut down’, in which case the name is of occupational origin.

Interesting.

Jim Horn...

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Body Art
David J Walker

It was beautiful beyond any measure
As the birthplace of unheard-of ideas
Mothers wept
Fathers slept 
While the skin-toned canvas 
Spread thin and then 
thinner again 
with age
Topographic changes across the brow 
The eyes seized in torrents of time
The deliquesce of delicate hands 
Unplanned corpulence 
In the fading spadix of arums and palms

Light will take what time has left behind...

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Strong hands explore
The pure silk landscape
In gentle topography
Tracing her features
Beneath his fingers
Mapping her contours
Her sensual curvature
The undulating terrain
Soft mounds contrasted 
By prominent peaks
Then across the flatness
Of the tremulous plain
Thru sparse coarse undergrowth
To the hot moist valley beyond
Strong hands explore
And as fingers probe
The pure silk landscape
Reforms beneath his touch...

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