I dream twice of a fulmarthe same placewind blastedheld and buffetedfeathers tornbody discoloured I wondered looked into mythknew not the story then suddenlyI remember it was at hell’s mouth I first met the bird and when I flustereddreamed that I was at the mouth of hell shoppingtripping on a stoneguarding a grandchildloving a soncherishing a …
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Walking through the graveyard with everyone and poetry thought comes Automatic Intimate Impelling Then a bee… Unmarked by paths The cluster Of grasses Some railing voice Another’s Message To climb Home You reach the wall Stop And speak Affeared Too late has Meaning now
Caw
Hearing the trickling, stuttering, crickle-crackle magpie I saw you Arranging a twig by your feet Before leaving Flapping to a further tree. Where from the farthest reach of your invisible eye your brother or sister or lover or mother Gently clapped through the branches to a present perch Had I dreamed I was up there? …
Talk about distraction
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So far
I am So far From heaven I believe Myself Invincible
You
You think you’ve got somewhereAnd you haveBut thinking is neither here nor there
The last alley
An alley still echoes the moor the heath the poor and the thief Rich with blackberries, gorse, mountain ash and wild cherry The longest season this year, eight weeks while Elsewhere a profusion of plums Apples galore White currants still sweet A moment of thought Thoughtlessness And if this was the last year and next …
Sour Dough
Ordering bread and coffee Baked by desire It’s grinding repetition Skin not an echo But that glistening same The bitter Buddha kneaded here Could not be loved Without lust Wisdom’s yeast Force fatale Yes Yes Concentration short Yes Pain overwhelms Yet where no excess and Eager expectation ends So ? It is imagination that arises.
The voice of the stupid poet Is just that No idea what they mean Sitting there on their laurels Rhyming so high