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@handmade_ghost *So* many lines for you to quote back, I can't decide which you'll pick 😉 😂 😊

It's from his collection The Talking Horse and the Sad Girl and the Village Under The Sea, which is full of marvellous things, and ... available 😏

'Go, Litel Book', by Mark Haddon

#Poetry #Writing #Bookstodon
Ladies and Gentlemen, members of the jury. Those of my trade, we are like the badger or the mole. We work alone in darkness, guided by tiny candles which we do not share, sweating to give birth to replacement planets where things happen which don't. And sometimes the hard jigsaw becomes a picture and not a car accident. More rarely we place our fingers adroitly on the frets or keyboar and multitudes plummet through the small white trapdoor which bears our hieroglyphs. Then we are taken up into the blaze and shout of the conurbations to make words in the air and strike the strange pose from the clothing catalogue. But sometimes we see a swallow in wintertime. And the talking horse and the sad girl and the village under the sea descend like stars into a land of long evenings and radically different vegetables and a flex is run from our hearts into the hearts of those who do not know the meaning of the words *cardigan* or *sleet*. And there is no finer pudding. Now I am like that cow in the nursery rhyme. The fire I have felt beneath your shirts. These cloisters. Red mullet with honey. This surprisingly large slab of Perspex. Your hands are on mine. But his man is another man. The clock chimes, my pumpkin awakes and the frog drums his gloved fingers on the dashboard. May the god whose thoughts are like a tent of white light above the laundry and the pigeons of this town walk always by your side. My burrow calls. Good night.
#writing #bookstodon #Poetry @handmade ghost
handmade ghost
"we are like the badger or the mole.
We work alone in darkness, guided by tiny
candles which we do not share"

Thank you! 🥰 (also, nice of Haddon to redeem himself with poetry after his ahem of an "autism" book)

I should just hole up with poetry all day today!
MiniMia 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 🇵🇸
I liked the idea of a book being a "small white trapdoor which bears our hieroglyphs".
Yes, that book definitely belongs on the list of "things you should probably stop referring to on the cover of your books now" pile 😬
He jumped on the "retelling of Greek myth" bandwagon a few years ago but his offering was very good and def. worth reading, called The Porpoise.
You're welcome 🥰
Amber weather warning for wind and rain here today (🙄 ), so holed up is the way forward.
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