THOM BOULTON
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​Stephan Delbos is the Poet Laureate for Plymouth, Massachusetts. When he was appointed, he sent me an email with a poem. I replied with a poem and since then it has evolved into an epistolary sequence. You can read snippets below and download the full poems for free. - Thom

Check out Stephan's social media as well for more wonderful wordy things: ​https://www.facebook.com/PlymouthPoetryForum/
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"We shape and are shaped by our location.
Plymouth, pliant mouth
always telling stories,
the lips of language kiss
the limits of recollection.
Pumpkin comes from Pohpukun,
meaning, grows forth round.
Wampanoag words.
Massachusetts place of the foothill.
Plymouth from Plymouth, England
meaning “mouth of the River Plym.”
A story: I was born on a coast’s crooked shoulder,
where gauze-white waves sling
shore and sand dunes frame dreams."
plymouth_cordage.pdf
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"In the mouth sits a Brythonic tongue,
meanders around meaning,
where Plym is ploumenn; ploumenn is plum,
and a plum mouth seems rather outlandish, doesn’t it?
High classes taste fruits from the trees upon its banks,
high classes hiring hands to pick the fruit for them,
they will not taste it though, for hands have no mouths
because... they are hands.
Imagine, if you want, never knowing the juice or piquant of flesh,
to be baptised in waters named after a fruit so out of reach
yet told to stretch anyway,
they’ve all gone away now."
river_plum.pdf
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"Words can be
pilgrims too
me to you
and passing
to readers
everywhere;
Mayflower’s
wake ripples
widening
 
to our shores
on both sides
Atlantic
cables these
landlines,"
poem.pdf
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" I think about Padgette in his cabin,
surrounded by a lake and ghosts,
I am in a swamp of spilt toys that lay on the rug,
haunted by weight gain, and repetitive strain.
When this time comes to an end
I will have to choose a new place to take photos,
maybe tidy up, eat less, take my time a bit.
Perhaps, I will write the next great American novel,
though I’m not American
nor a novelist. But should I let that stop me? Probably.
What would you do?
Will things continue as they did before?"
surrounded.pdf
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  • The Poet
    • Poaetree
    • Bewks
    • The Mandy Moore Band Club
    • Preezentin
    • Contakt
  • The Photographer
    • 2023 >
      • Filth @ The Underground
    • 2022 >
      • Passion Project
      • Plymouth Market Carnival 22
      • Through Rainbow Tinted Lenses
      • Gin City Anthology Launch
      • Love Letters to an Imaginary Girlfriend book launch
      • Poetry at the PPL