Poems

The Refusal of Charon Why look the distant mountains So gloomy and so drear? Are rain clouds passing o’er them, Or is the tempest near? No […]

West Of Alice We are travelling west of Alice Springs, and Sam is at the wheel; Riding the diesel-grader I am watching its blade of steel […]

To the Victor Man’s mind is larger than his brow of tears; This hour is not my all of time; this place My all of earth; […]

Aubade Hours before dawn we were woken by the quake. My house was on a cliff. The thing could take Bookloads off shelves, break bottles in […]

Homage to the British Museum There is a supreme God in the ethnological section; A hollow toad shape, faced with a blank shield. He needs his […]

Just a Smack at Auden Waiting for the end, boys, waiting for the end. What is there to be or do? What’s become of me or […]

Let It Go It is this deep blankness is the real thing strange. The more things happen to you the more you can’t Tell or remember […]

Missing Dates Slowly the poison the whole blood stream fills. It is not the effort nor the failure tires. The waste remains, the waste remains and […]

The Teasers Not but they die, the teasers and the dreams, Not but they die, and tell the careful flood To give them what they clamour […]

This Last Pain This last pain for the damned the Fathers found: “They knew the bliss with which they were not crowned.” Such, but on earth, […]