shoulders
still holding my weight
a ladder of old songs

giants
packing lunches
in greaseproof paper

mortar
mixed with coal dust
and cut knuckles

splinters
in the banister
the creak of attic beams

Paul Conneally
3rd March 20

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The image is of Sir Isaac Newton’s death mask which is in Grantham museum. The poem is a series of haiku like poems that come out of reflections on this quote from Newton: “If I have seen further than others, it is by standing on the shoulders of giants”