Poor Richard : Leave Report : At the Victoria and Albert


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Poor Richard 1 • 2 • 3 • 4 • 5 dear kanga 1 • 2 • 3 • 4 • 5 • 6 • 7 • 8 • 9 • 10 Leave Report Sabbatical • Departure • Arrival • Elgin Crescent • A Shot of the British Museum • At the Victoria and Albert • The Book of Kells • At Kew • Through Pisa • Return to Iffley • Mordros Source: Poor Richard: Poems. Wellington: Port Nicholson Press, 1982 Electronic source: Poor Richard: a TEI-conformant transcription All poems © W. H. Oliver	At the Victoria and Albert Nothing depicted lacks shape four straight lines impose order. St George's severed head bouncing over the cobbles trailing a streak of red keeps its halo intact. A Korean envoy seated top-hatted in a corner acquires an altogether unintended aptness. Madonnas rank on rank brook no competition as each insists upon a universal function. The hollow iron Buddha serene in the inner courtyard half-filled with cans and paper is smiling like a flower. Put a rectangle around it a clean white sheet will do.