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New Marchants Passage
The sign clings to the white stone It is an essential love I have discussed the platonic
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Guy Keeble (A Life)
I had always known that he had an astonishing sense of colour But was he a gifted man ? It was reported that when he sliced a tomato in half He found an orchestra But did not stay to witness the symphony It was this dedication to his art That set him apart from other […]
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Electric Dreamers
The dripping dawn had broken the winter writers burning ideal of his waxen youth and a strange linnet sang songs of peculiar clarity in the purple pessimism of its ruby cage c 1976
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Marjorie Fleming
You still update The years of solitude With your fragile astonishment Now let your companions Seek the secluded fruits.
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flowersatreadingstation
welcometotheflowerstadium refreshyourconsiderationtoday
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Grass Children
The children were merry in the long grass A ship was passing it was heading towards their sea-horizons Each was oblivious of the other Only I was matching
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Cerebral Horsemen
But what of these horsemen who when upon a dire ass have dreams of equestrian splendour. do they not know as they cross the desert of no base hope that their glory will soon ensear and only the worms will care to pick their bones of latent thought. A poem taken from a […]
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Brutus
In this climate of disgust I am searching for the vacant music As songs are without fathers Revived only in the folk-memory The History of the Duel There was almost nobody left who could remember the duel. After extended negotiations I was permitted to speak to the blind adventurer who had in his youth heard […]
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Burial Hill
Here she lies (Blue Slate, Cleft Near Summit, Moss Covered) Here he lies (White Marble, Weathering, Rough) both rest with many in the deep damp soil of the new world under the fogs of the sea they contemplate the wide shores and the velvet tides of their eternal address. A poem taken from […]
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An Illustrated Woman
Viola had The Laws of Rubicon Bezique tattooed on her inner arm so that she could play cards with her fighters as they travelled