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Matthew Mead's

A Dozen Villanelles

are available in a signed, limited edition of 200 copies from The Frogmore Press, 42 Morehall Avenue, Folkestone, Kent CT19 4EF for only £3-50 inclusive of post and packing.

Mr Mead is an experienced craftsman with a fastidious eye for form, but his language tends to work at several removes from anything identifiably related to experience

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Villanelle of the Last Lap

walking the final mile

with nothing left to say

smiling a toothless smile

one man in single file

trying to lose his way

walking the final mile

meeting a crocodile

of schoolgirls all gone grey

smiling a toothless smile

going on all the while

to while all time away

walking the final mile

claiming no domicile

drawn on beyond dismay

smiling a toothless smile

beyond the broken stile

stumbling back to stay

walking the final mile

smiling a toothless smile.

 

Matthew Mead

 

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
   
 
   
   
   
   
   
       
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