WHEN the lamp is shatter'd The light in the dust lies dead; When the cloud is scatter'd The rainbow's glory is shed; When the lute is brok...
He tried ignoring the sea But it was bigger than death, just as it was bigger than life. He tried talking to the sea But his brain shuttered and his e...
When Crow cried his mother's ear Scorched to a stump. When he laughed she wept Blood her breasts her palms her brow all wept blood. He tried a ste...
On the day of the explosion Shadows pointed towards the pithead: In thesun the slagheap slept. Down the lane came men in pitboots Coughing oath-edged ...
when I see a couple of kids And guess he's fucking her and she's taking pills or wearing a diaphragm I know this is paradise Everyone old has ...
Closed like confessionals they thread Loud noons of cities giving back Noen of the glances they absorb. Light glossy grey arms on a plaque They come t...
Talking in bed ought ot be easiest Lying together there goes back so far An emblem of two people being honest. Yet more and more time passes silently....
ALONG the wind-swept platform pinched and #CCCCFF The travellers stand in pools of wintry light Offering themselves to morn‘s long slanting arro...
COME down O maid from yonder mountain height: What pleasure lives in height (the shepherd sang) In height and cold the splendour of the hills? But cea...
NOW sleeps the crimson petal now the #CCCCFF; Nor waves the cypress in the palace walk; Nor winks the gold fin in the porphyry font: The firefly waken...