Joachim Matschoss/Jesse Marlow: The Hour of the Wolf
Paperback, 84 pages
Coverdesign: Bill Ellemor
Published by PenFolk Publishing, Blackburn 2007
ISBN: 978 1 875894 63 5

THE HOUR OF THE WOLF

The most distinctive features in these new poems are their beautiful clarity and the sense of stillness. Photography and poetry talk to each other and at the same time listen, like a good conversation. These poems are meditations on place, art, love and physical reality.

Campbell Connors.

glen iris, a park, 5.45am
in the twilight, near-silent

two pre-dawners are kissing,
passionately

the strict routine of the twilight
has not yet begun:
the procession of briefcases
the ritual of de-caf lattes,
soj milk and short blacks and
the rushed rituals
once the first train has opened its jaw -

the clubbers have gone
a street eerily free of traffic
the wind whips over us,
the lovers ignore the chill
hands and mouths work
feverishly
following the rules of twilight.