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| ***BIO*** David Chorlton grew up in industrial Manchester, England, before moving to Vienna in 1971 and staying there for seven years. Travel around Europe during that time left him with a full bank of impressions that continue to surface in his work. The Southwest provided the eye-opening experience of stunning scenery and an awareness of nature that he was not prepared for. His short collection of poems, Common Sightings, with a desert theme, won a Palanquin Press award in 2001, and A Normal Day Amazes Us appeared in 2003 from Kings Estate Press. 2004 sees the publication of Return to Waking Life, from Main Street Rag. |
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| Piazzolla Street |
| by David Chorlton |
| Dancing off the edge of the Earth we choose the tango to take us down the last wet street that disappears in a blur of mist in which a tiny spark shows someone is lighting a cigarette, shielding the flame while a plume of blue smoke rises from behind his raincoat collar. He is a stranger to everyone who passes, a refugee from the age of black-and-white films, whose breath is stained with brandy. He leans on a lamppost and sighs at each couple bound for oblivion, locked in a gesture of indifference toward what lies before them; the arching of a partner's spine in the cup of a hand, and the free fall through the stars in a state of abandon brought on by a bow drawn slowly across violin strings in a long, descending scream like the sound of a missile that never reaches its target, a weapon with no enemy. |