Poetry at Sangam
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When the river goes underground it isn’t lying
James Galvin, ‘Leap Year’
When the river goes underground it isn’t lying
when
the river goes under, the ground sighs,
goes
lying asunder, the river wends lines and grows sly gerunds
under
the lining we shiver a riff, we are groundlings
we sigh
as the giver rows in reverse
what
lies under the river?
will we
grow lives round a verse if the rivets shift?
or
will we end?
when
the reverie enlivens a given it isn’t going to lie
the roundelay
undergoes a wounding, becomes a riven anaglyptic
that
glows undergroundlike
vernix
we
are sly, we eviscerate the when of ending
under
the river grows a glyph
we
shift our lives to lie around