Northeast her - that's the sun-up here,
heading Zen summerward, she springs,
swallows the hour, so late her entrance,
trailing cerements of win-win winter,
rolling stones down swift stream, seawards,
where a salmon later will rate her for garter,
since time waits for Noman, all oars ready,
and the nose is a nest again, Pinoke,
and the toes send back to the humpty hillhead
and the gardener plucks a rose again, Mag,
and there was a man jumped in a paper bag...
..................
Acknowledgements:-
- 'salmon' and 'humpty hillhead' from James Joyce 'Finnegan's Wake' - as also the general style.
- Noman is Odysseus (escaping from Cyclops)
- 'Time Waits for No One' is a song by Jagger and Richards- Rolling Stones.
- Pinoke is Disney's Pinocchio
- Mag is Mary Magdalene
- The sun swallows the hour 'cos the clock went forward this year on Easter morning in UK.
- man in paper bag from old rhyme:
http://www.sweetrhymes.com/nursery-rhymes/the-man-who-went-mad/
(that's a different version) and
http://songswithsimon.com/nursery-rhymes/there-was-a-man-he-went-mad/
(that's my nursery one).
