Tag: Lights in the Constellation of the Crab

  • Two Poems by Angus Ogilvy: from Lights in the Constellation of the Crab

      Cartography Following the old maps, he arrived just where he had planned to be. The landscape conformed to interpretation: that hill, those clumps of trees, the village gathered around the bridge. He saw the things he’d expected to see, given the forecasts, the time of year: the lone fox and the raven falling.  …

  • Splenomegaly

        The body has a lump.   The lump is growing.   Just under the rib cage on the left side reaching down.   A torn muscle; too many sit-ups rippling my abdomen.   And yet no pain. No pain at all.   And weight loss too. Yes.   But no surprise after all…

  • FOUR POEMS

    Cartography   Following the old maps, he arrived just where he had planned to be. The landscape conformed to interpretation: that hill, those clumps of trees, the village gathered around the bridge.  He saw the things he’d expected to see, given the forecasts, the time of year: the lone fox and the raven falling.  …