declining the cline


in a city of pocketed evolutions
we see one good case for design:

draining suspicion and indifference
from an archipelago
of stranded cultures.


© Paul Taylor 2005

Southwark Hour programme 5: spontaneous poem

In a film shown during the programme, a teacher discussed how cultural groups get separated out within the larger culture, using a biological term for geographically-induced variation in evolution. This poem's target is the isolating swamps of ignorance and hostility.


trombone poetry