Extraordinary Agents

Chris Beckett

 

 

The extraordinary

 

agents of history

 

made good time

 

potatoes and grapes

 

locking lengths of knotted string

 

silent records half a day

 

from anywhere.

 

       Jewelled

 

folding organs and a narrow hoping

 

mined for corridors and reforms

 

epiphytes abundantly dark

 

       smoke

 

occasional radius.

 

       The extraordinary

 

agents pack rough

 

believing everything.

 

 

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