Caxtons are mechanical birds with many wings.
and some are treasured for their markings -.
Mist is when the sky is tired of flight.
and rests its soft machine on ground:.
Then the world is dim and bookish.
like engravings under tissue paper.
Rain is when the earth is televison.
It has the property of making colours darker.
Model T is a room with the lock inside -.
a key is turned to free the world.
for movement, so quick there is a film.
to watch for anything missed.
But time is tied to the wrist.
or kept in a box, ticking with impatience.
In homes, a haunted apparatus sleeps,.
that snores when you pick it up.
If the ghost cries, they carry it.
to their lips and soothe it to sleep.
with sounds. And yet they wake it up.
deliberately, by tickling with a finger.
Only the young are allowed to suffer.
openly. Adults go to a punishment room.
with water but nothing to eat.
They lock the door and suffer the noises.
alone. No one is exempt.
and everyone's pain has a different smell.
At night when all the colours die,.
they hide in pairs.
and read about themselves.
in colour, with their eyelids shut.
-- Craig Raine.
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Craig Raine.
Born in 1945 in County Durham located North of England. He graduated from Oxford, and afterwards, he was appointed as lecturer there. Much of his work is designed to help the reader to see the world from a fresh point of view. His poetry is flamboyant, self conscious, and witty.
Summary.
"A Martian Sends a Postcard Home" is a poem with seven ten stanzas. All of the stanzas have two lines identified, as a couplet even though the poem does not have a regular correspondence of sounds recognized as ryhme. The reading of poem is tricky at first; I had the impression that the title was literally meant to be about a Martian. However, upon further study, I found the poem is actually about a letter written by a Martian sent to his origins. The use of metaphors and similes are used to describe the things the Martian encounterd during his or her visit to earth.
