To make a bridge
Between poetry and prose
To make a movable bridge
Between this year and next year
To know the male from the female embryo
By auscultation
To enable the plotting of barometric areas
To make a bridge
Between heaven and earth
To make a bridge
Between man and man
And between men and men
A bridge across the grey dividing river
A skeleton bridge
(Their bones fly electrically
To arch themselves in a system of stresses
Exactly and patiently
Between the lines of the two camps)
A flying bridge
In the dark ‘air
Sensible of the currents
A bridge between you and me
To make such a bridge
Foresight and cunning
The development of additional organs
In peace
The building of new brains
Lobe by lobe
In the wide spaces and the free pathways of the wind
The collection of materials
The sorting of minerals
The naming of substances
The enumeration of all these
And the congratulation of all those
Who live in a certain part of a certain place
The co-ordinates of pleasure
In the category of bridges
We have this bridge and that bridge
But whatever the bridge
And wherever the bridge
There is only one space
Hungry, roaring and indivisible
Under the bridge
To be kind to each other
To help in construction
To be sorry
To be aware of the difficulties
To give treatment
To arrange food supplies
To make shelters and centres for the construction of bridge
To allow time
To put together and to take to pieces
Talking quietly and thinking loudly
We have undertaken.
(Charles Madge)
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