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Our touring guide has said pagodas show us fullness with emptiness made good - each slot air-tight to its wood And it is a tease of pleasure as you discover the ease with which this one guides wooden weight through weight until weightlessly absolute She moves on adding there's not a single nail how nothing at all is pegging this together — that all this towering height of five great storeys from before 680 has been down to the longstanding hang of gravity. And so we onlookers warm to thought deriving from the way it all (invariably) does conform. |
| Graham Worden was brought up in Kent, UK, but has lived and worked in Manchester for about 17 years. He has travelled quite a lot and once lived in Tokyo for two years. His poems have appeared in Agenda and PN Review, along with other anthologies such as the Lancaster Lit Festival. He sings as a tenor in The Halle Choir. |
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