A globule –
a small dark cloud
of gas and dust
seen against the background
of a luminous nebula
or more simply
a viscous drop of fat
ball-shaped hence the globe
Falstaff’s belly shifted from Curtain Road
in Shoreditch to Southwark
all the world within the confines
love and jealousy and murderous
ambition alongside scholarly indecision
tears running down their cheeks
of joy and laughter
of pain and despair
full of the pomp and circumstance
of life lived out on the boards
the bard with a silver tongue
who filled that word that name
that astronomical sphere
with drama with poetry
with all the magical dust
of human life
John Lyons
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