Poetry’s not algebra…

but it’s the high-hooch of distilled meaning. It bites deep. Here’s the line-mob from In Parenthesis, waiting to go over the top.

 

Last minute drums its taut millennium out

you can’t swallow your spit

and Captain Marlowe yawns a lot

and seconds now our measuring-rods with no Duke Josue

nor conniving God

to stay the Divisional Synchronisation

 

When it all settles down, internetization complete, I hope there are some people still reading David Jones.