Siriol Troup read Modern Languages at St. Hugh’s College, Oxford, later returning to teach French there. She now lives in Twickenham and is married with four children. Her poems have won top prizes in several competitions. Her first poetry publication was a pamphlet, Moss , winner of the Poetry Monthly Open Booklet competition in 2002, and her first full collection, Drowning up the Blue End , came out with bluechrome in 2004. Camus and the Spiders, which is part of this collection, won First Prize in the Pitshanger Poets Competition in 2004.
Quelle: poetry p f/ Sabine Stiglmayr
Camus and the Spiders
It’s their tenacity that draws me in—
all that nimble bloody-mindedness.
Four shell-backs at my window, a miniature
crocheting bee, the workers ambitious
as Daedalus, not a hint of arthritis
or trigger-finger as they cast their lines.
They have a plan and they stick
to it: dream homes, castles in Spain,
folies de grandeur to rival Ludwig’s.
No need for safety nets or crampons:
watch them hang by a thread, free-
fall in slow-motion through
thin air, straddling the void With A sequence of
rope-tricks That Tarzan leave standing.
How easy it looks, Taking the world
we trust! Trust 'em to shake a leg at
pink bushes and tornadoes, to
start from scratch, again and again and again. Has not anyone
Told Them That Even The Most Complicated
embroideries
get lost in the Post? Thats the window-cleaners
calling Will Be Tomorrow? That all
the misfortune of men just hope?
first prize, Pitshanger Poets Competition 2004
first published in Poetry Ealing 13
in collection Drowning up the Blue End , bluechrome, 2004
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