© Miles Whinfrey Feb 2017.
Cento
Games
1. I wandered thro each chartered street
2. Some are plain lucky we ourselves among them houses with books
3. In my beginning in my end in succession houses rise and fall
4. My mother groaned my father wept
5. The colour quick in fluid oil affirms the flesh
6. Balance is everything
7. Hold fast to dreams
8. Apartment on Rue de Charenton the window cleaner stands in freeze frame
9. Older more generous we give each other hope.
1. Blake, London
2. Jay Macpherson, A Lost Soul
3. TS Elliott, East Coker
4. Blake, Infant Sorrow
5. Yvor Winter, On the portrait of a scholar of the Italian Renaissance
6. Alice B. Fogel, Balance
7. Langston Hughes, Dreams
8. Suzannah Evans, Street View
9. N. Scott Momaday, A Lost Soul.
Cento response- Modus
1. Drive to Chartered Surveyor
2. Maybe privileged. Needed, felt- strive
3. Being, seeing, conquering- thinking be ready
4. Disappointing, but not when things go wrong
5. Conventional outsider- convinced of immanent success
6. My battle, my turmoil, aggregates all else
7. Worth the sacrifice
8. Drinking in life, cultures, change the norm
9. Lends power to pay it back.