Alone

... or should that be ...frowzenfgngerrs - chilly heading up to High Winder ...

Gentle day after somewhat disasterous day yesterday. Bread baking improved with an active yeast which was in date. Listening to Carol Ann Duffy and the oldest love poem, from an 8th century Sumerian tablet -

'Bridegroom, dear to my heart,
Goodly is your beauty, honeysweet,
Lion, dear to my heart,
Goodly is your beauty, honeysweet.'

and, Keats's 'Bright Star'

Bright star, would I were stedfast as thou art-
Not in lone splendour hung aloft the night
And watching, with eternal lids apart,
Like nature's patient, sleepless Eremite,
The moving waters at their priestlike task
Of pure ablution round earth's human shores,
Or gazing on the new soft-fallen mask
Of snow upon the mountains and the moors-
No-yet still stedfast, still unchangeable,
Pillow'd upon my fair love's ripening breast,
To feel for ever its soft fall and swell,
Awake for ever in a sweet unrest,
Still, still to hear her tender-taken breath,
And so live ever-or else swoon to death.

Also went to the dentist and was thinking of Paul Farley's poem 'Relic' ...
(not sure its written out right here in terms of line breaks, etc.)

One's a crown, two's a crown,
three, four, five, distal occlusal,
six occlusal, seven occlusal.
Upperleft.
One mesial incisal, two mesial incisal,
three's a crown
four, five is absent,
space closed.
Six occlusal, seven occlusal
eight.
Lower left.
One's a crown, two mesial,
three, four occlusal
five is absent,
space closed.
Six occlusal, seven occlusal,
eight is absent
right one, two, three, four distal occlusal,
five's a buckle, six and seven are absent,
space closed.