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To: cosmicforce who wrote (120719)	9/9/2009 5:03:33 PM
From: Wharf Rat	Respond to of 542026

"people working in computer-controlled grasshouses shouldn't stone trolls" People who live in grass houses shouldn't throw stone trolls The hidden people are watching, they have jaws of granite and hair of shale and they mumble when the wind hits them. Surely if you can believe in fire beneath ice you can believe in them. We are in a place, after all, of houses, paint box bright, with lawned roofs and goats above the rafters. We are in a place of hidden depths, of bubbling beneaths, of bases that don't support. A place piping hot served on two shifting plates with an iced topping. The mountains slope such shapes: a curved leg here, a small breast there. They hold no threat. They bear no malice 'though the crater, a rusted inkwell with its blue black lagoon and its stillness, regards the sky but won't reflect it. For there is something not right here. Sometimes in the dead of a two hour night when the landscape is serene and not heard we become the hidden people. We are an eyeball at a shuttered window, a head beneath the parapet. We are sly watchfulness and whispers on the morning when the Trolls turn to stone. poetrymagazines.org.uk