The Fifth Day . . . and Other Bitesize Prose Poems
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making out of ordinary experiences a rich and evocative meditation, with
consistent warmth and humour.
This is a piquant, inventive collection (Roger Cardinal, art critic,
emeritus professor, University of Kent).
These pieces reach for intangible (Patricia Debney, poet, Canterbury
laureate, 200708).
One is reminded all at once of Zen Koans, Piet Hein, John Clare, and
even Beckett (Todd McEwen, author of four novels, a former editor of
Granta magazine).
Chieko Persimmons
Born to a Siberian painter mother and a Japanese architect father, Chieko Persimmons was brought up in a German Catholic convent, and spent most of her adulthood in England. She was graduated from University of Kent, worked in economic research and financial strategy, travelled, married, and now lives in a Kentish farm with fruit orchards, fields, rabbits, foxes, woodpeckers, and the big open sky above them.
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The Fifth Day . . . and Other Bitesize Prose Poems - Chieko Persimmons
Copyright © 2010 by Chieko Persimmons.
Library of Congress Control Number: 2010916349
ISBN: Hardcover 978-1-4568-0833-4
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Contents
THE PARTNER
A FORTY-EIGHT-HOUR DAY
TROMBONE
UNEXPECTED
SNAIL’S PROGRESS
WEDDING MARCH
THE FIFTH DAY
A SLEEPING BEAUTY
A THICK FOG
ON A SPACESHIP
A LONE SINGER
RACING CIRCUITS (OR M20)
PERFECT SANCTUARY
LIFE
MOSAIC BODY
POCKET FURNACE
AUTUMN TREE
STUCK
A BLACK FLY
FEEDBACK NEEDED
IN SEARCH OF LOST TUNE
A LITTLE MOUSE
THE SUN RISES AND
THE SUN SETS
A SHETLAND PONY
THE SISYPHUS WRIST WATCH
WAKING UP
DON’T GET ME WRONG
INSATIABLE LONELINESS
A JOGGER’S LIFE
My special thanks to
You, the reader!
In memory of
Gregor Samsa
Antoine Roquentin
THE PARTNER
A colleague of mine has been single for all her fifty years. She tried, in the past, to find a partner but in the end prefers to be on her own.
‘Ah, but you don’t understand, I do have a partner. Come and see us.’
She invites me to her house for a supper. As