Which does more for me
Than any other
Maybe also for you
This part of me
Does more for you than any other
This part of me
I might call
My curricular excelsior
Maybe also for you
My curricular excelsior
Is the better part of me
And for me
What part of you
Does more for me than any other
Oh that I should tell you
But if I did, then before very long
All of your friends would know
One more step
Another note
With its own inflection
Before one departs
To spend quiet time
With the brothers
In this way
The mind is given
Time and space
With the hope
Of achieving calm
And clarity of purpose
The music being
Only a minor distraction
Blue-black dress
Italians to impress
In the wedding chateau
Ink blue leaf
Immersed in flower relief
Over there on the mountain
If not to caress
Or favours to suggest
For the declining years
So much mischief
Beneath the climbing disbelief
The iTunes playlist
Based on Dublin Blues
Is exquisite
Though I may have to buy
More Lyle Lovett
And Blaze Foley
The snow swirls
Turned into a wild flurry
But that too is now over
For we have blue skies
Bright sunshine
Landing on last years
Dried-out beech leaves
Johnny Cash sings
On your mind
From a playlist, set to repeat
TS Eliot
Looks in my direction
From a Wyndham Lewis portrait
This book
Is drawing to a close
But there is another
Holding on
To the coat-tails
As one might say