[New-Poetry] An unlocked cabinet, perhaps?

[David Bircumshaw]

In case it's of interest to anybody, just to say I've added a new 
e-publication, 'The Cabinet of Dr Spectare', to my website at 
http://homepage.ntlworld.com/david.bircumshaw/
Whether or not it's worth reading or not, the reader may judge, it costs 
but time. And electricity. And an internet connection.
It consists of a non-sequential short sequence of stand-alone poems 
written occasionally over a fourteen year period, some of which have 
appeared, sporadically, in publications you may know.
The name 'Spectare' was invented by me as a character in the one and 
only game of Dungeons and Dragons I have ever played, back in the early 
Eighties. Typically, the character was assassinated by the Dungeon 
master at the first available opportunity. As a potentially dangerous 
character. The experience has remained with me ever since.
To my delight, in recent years the name has been patented as a trademark 
in the United States, where it is a brand of electronic key, and in 
Germany where it is a form of commercial security software. There are 
also some dark mutterings in Norwegian which I can't understand.
The sequence can be read in any order, except that you have to enter via 
the rather gnomic title poem. I have left two deliberate errors in it, 
as I can't yet think of better words, and all unintended blemishes I own 
as entirely my own.

Best

Dave

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David Bircumshaw
Website and A Chide's Alphabet http://homepage.ntlworld.com/david.bircumshaw/
The Animal Subsides http://www.arrowheadpress.co.uk/books/animal.html
Leicester Poetry Society: http://www.poetryleicester.co.uk