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Making Marks a new poem by Duncan Jones...

Making Marks

a new poem by Duncan Jones...

by Duncan Jones, Poet in Residence
first published: February, 2020

approximate reading time: minutes

Making Marks

MAKING MARKS

He draws with the charcoal an arc across the page.

Pictures her blacked eye from the story.

Music inching off from behind as disgrace.

What is this drawing for but drawing out?

Petals fall from drying stems.

This book on the table pretends to be read.

Remember yesterday hit by a car reversing in the dark.

Put the charcoal down and look outside.


Duncan Jones

Duncan Jones
Poet in Residence

Duncan has lived and worked in Birmingham for over forty years. He does things with words and pictures.


about Duncan Jones »»

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