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    the inward garden
      (Poems for St Edmund’s)

          St Edmund’s College, Feb. 2013:    [limited edition]     ISBN: 978-0-9538316-9-2    (pamphlet)

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for St. Edmund’s College

listen

along these corridors
behind the tongue
through the lesson –

listen
not only to
what is said or

shouldn’t be
said – but in the way
the eye can sense that glow

incoming behind the dark
or the body to blood
beneath its action

listen
to noiselessness never
broken despite the show –

how in the heart
of agitation
there is silence

into which a slower
silence
with you in tow

enters

 
        (c) Mario Petrucci 2013

 

the inward garden collects into an elegant pamphlet a series of subtle yet challenging poems written during the poet's long-term residency at the renowned St Edmund’s College in rural Hertfordshire. These poems capture the diverse and profoundly thoughtful quality of the author's engagement with the pupils there.

 
 

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