for Eric
Mottram: 1924-1995 (not
because of any debt, felt or incurred)
T.Wignesan
one stroke a point
leftstroke bent
hooked
two a cover man
man enter eight
borders to cover ice
table receptacle
knife strength
wrap spoon basket
box ten to divine
seal cliff private
also mouth enclosure
earth
scholar follow
walk evening
great woman child
roof inch small
lame crooked corpse
sprout mountain stream
work self
napkin shield
tiny shelter
move on
join hands
a
dart a bow
pig’s head feathery
to pace heart
spear door
hand branch
tap writings
measure axe
square not sun
speak
moon wood
owe
stop evil kill
do not compare hair family air water
fire
claws father
change a frame a
strip
tooth
ox
dog
dark jade
melon
tile
sweet
produce
use field
bolt of cloth
sick back to back
white
skin dish
eye lance
arrow stone
spirit to track grain cave
erect bamboo rice
silk earthenware net
sheep feathers old
plough ear
brush flesh officer from self reach
a mortar tongue opposed boat a limit
colour grass tiger
insect blood do clothes cover
see horn
words
valley
platter
pig
reptile
shell red
walk
foot body
cart bitter time
stop & go
city
new wine separate village
metal long gate plenty
reach to a bird rain
azure
false face
rawhide
leather leek
sound heading wind
fly eat head fragrance
horse bone high
long hair fight wine cauldron ghost
fish bird
salt deer
wheat
hemp
yellow millet
black embroidery
toad
tripod
drum rodent nose
even teeth drag on tortoise flute
© T.Wignesan, 22-23 November 1995
[This
poem was accepted for publication in Radical Poetics (