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Tuesday, 30 March 2021

Fuchsias or Freesias (Scream Not Heard)

Now can I get you to smell this stuff
And if so how

Burnt Skin
Roast on human spits
Smoked over oil flamed leaves

Diesel or Gas
Exhausted 
Float off before the fall

Thin return
In early winter
Eerie atmosphere

How can I get you to smell this stuff
Would it be easier if it were your mother

Kick, crunch underfoot 
Stand erect, breathe slow 
Remember 

No more white berries
My Edwardian friend
Down Broadway’s broad walks

Each different house
Today expect the bay
A front room for the dead to lay

How can I get you to smell this stuff
Would it be easier if it were your failure

Missed it
Must not able to afford
Explain to them

The aroma


Monday, 29 March 2021

Corporate Clothes

Heartbeat in your cosmos lee
Take me
To your meditation retreat
Take me in all innocence

Heartbeat across the sea
If you have cared
To read along, join together
Sing a simple sensitive song

Heartbeat across the oceans
Take me
To your ceremony's defeat
Let your silk swathes set me free

Heartbeat in the stars and streams
If you have cared
To read along join together
Sing our simple sensitive song

Heartbeat across the oceans
Heartbeat across the sea
Take me
In all innocence

Let your silk swathes
Set me free
In your ceremonial retreat
Let your silk swathes set me free


Sunday, 28 March 2021

No Defence

Sunlight, stained glass
Interned upstairs
Shadow, artificial light
Infirm are down below

Country lanes
And thistle fences
No defence
For crept in thoughts

Trees out of leaf
Clung with ivy
No rungs for jackboots
That daddy brought

Children or spiders
Snug inside
No bug for those elementary
Liquorice-all-sorts

Parcels, presents
Delivered on time, by then
To open, to close
To return, to intend her

Impending desolation
Only hesitation cares
And words, to open
To close, interns beware


Saturday, 27 March 2021

The Cold Days After Summer

Where are you now
Still of flight, in your bed
Where are you now
Was it untrue indeed I said

It is almost not a moment
More esprit de corps
Less time
Than the evening primrose

Takes to open
Less time
Than to run
For that last late-night bus

Where are you now
Settled, set in your flowerbed

Where are you now
Was it undue, that I misled

For words to envelop
This play or plight
More phrases
Than metaphors incline

More dandelions
Than summer wine
More incandescent light
Than generated cadence

Where are we now
Are we lonely instead
Where are we now
Alive, although misread


Friday, 26 March 2021

Clay Ball

Ball
Of moulded clay
Grey as the squirrel
Textured as the elephant's skin

Don’t
Forget my impression
Pressed as I rested
As I contemplated

How
A clay ball
Could cast the
Memories of ages

Ball
Don’t
How
Then, or now