Trafika Europe 9/10 - UK in Europe

MarkMurphy

Canon and Gigue

1 Sunday evening in St Peter’s Gardens, the last sunlight pushing through clouds of memory

that besiege you in your revelry, claiming ownership of this girl and that long last love.

Unsurprisingly, night is drawing in again upon you as you wander over the gravestones alone and back to your rented rooms where you drink cheap Polish beer and insist on music. Even Pachalbel’s grave stirrings cannot soothe or consume your sadness – where your lady wife is five years and five thousand miles distant, hanging to life by a thread, unavailable for comment.

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