Title: Lost Weekend

Author: John Newton

In: Sport 11: Spring 1993

Publication details: Fergus Barrowman, November 1993, Wellington

Part of: Sport

Keywords: Verse Literature

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Sport 11: Spring 1993

John Newton — Lost Weekend

page 47

John Newton

Lost Weekend

1

everyone else’s naive aspiration
simply
Speak the speech

lord, the most ample weary life

most     sleep of death
detained          an hour

*

anachrony of the I     confess

the Author, then     in ill health

some way along that commonsense journey

rebound     the old handwritten body

2

future
agony     those interpretations
I could accuse me of such     things as

in the unlikely     blasted with ecstasy

hank Fortune

cast

momently was

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3

a stately garden
thereunto she caught me in
the other writing

imitation     after / something
dutiful
of professional dread

*

Anne Boleyn
entails him
the newfangled body
of his writing problem

4

difficult differences of vision
images     How thin they are

the struggling basic language
hero’s mis-shaped     force the

body     listens

*

dayes deep     random as it
were remembrances

their perfumed     jargon

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5

Lord, lord     those
contemptible heart-aches

his damaging phrasing
his aphorism system

where was

even from being
in darknesse

heard

him most humbly

the symphony of

*

(like bricks) in space her
sibylline injurious
song     in any form

6

a sunless sea
for trippingly
revisited
attracted me

the passion master
sicklied o’er
to rags and tatters
written thee
*
page 50 her dulcimer, her green
goodness

the technical language
of neglected love

7

to his     no small
joy and mortification

to almost disappear off the map

the air
the too much / someone else’s

book / the spine
the real item

*
to action only prepositional
chamber phrase

the Russian of form

Ay, truly
form
force

anachrony

tradition of song

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8

the body floating     someone
else’s
spurious injury

now     awaking

old Otherhand

to a lonely farm-house

and on his return to his room
found, written