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Woodland Pattern™    Book   Center Poetry Archive		Geraldine Monk Geraldine Monk is an English poet from the county of Lancashire. Her poetry was first published in the 1970's and has appeared in numerous magazines and anthologies in Britain and the U.S.A. Her main collections of poetry include Interregnum, Creation Books, Noctivagations and Escafeld Hangings both published by West House Books. The Salt Companion to Geraldine Monk edited by Scott Thurston appeared in 2007. Her latest collection is Ghost & Other Sonnets, Salt Publishing, 2008.

from Ghost & Other Sonnets Geraldine Monk

It started with a tryst and twist of Lupine lovely arms along a rural railroad Bank. Winter rose up summer's rise. Throes of profound bafflement. Vague was the impression of fossil Teeth across the false breast Yearning for a straight line in Nature digging the what that lies Oblong and lewd in the tube of Afterlife lingerings. Unsourced scent so strong it Overpowered sense and narrative. Disturbed earth grew stripes. A stalk broke too far. Desperation clung to petulant Hillside. Sadistic clouds gingered Nails snagged a cut of Gibbous moon. It was getting nasty. Eccentric crops of revert cats Mewled semicircles beneath the bay Window frocks shimmied in full party swing. Transparency rebounded dark: looking Out with awe they saw themselves looking In: Thin things shattered on Fluted reflections. As if... They gasped...as if... Grabbing the scruff a noun Drowned an over-gowned thought.

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