Poems

Now Now Say nay, Man dry man, Dry lover mine The deadrock base and blow the flowered anchor, Should he, for centre sake, hop in the […]

O Make Me A Mask O make me a mask and a wall to shut from your spies Of the sharp, enamelled eyes and the spectacled […]

On A Wedding Anniversary The sky is torn across This ragged anniversary of two Who moved for three years in tune Down the long walks of […]

On No Work of Words On no work of words now for three lean months in the bloody Belly of the rich year and the big […]

Once It Was the Colour of Saying Once it was the colour of saying Soaked my table the uglier side of a hill With a capsized […]

Our Eunuch Dreams I Our eunuch dreams, all seedless in the light, Of light and love the tempers of the heart, Whack their boys’ limbs, And, […]

Poem In October It was my thirtieth year to heaven Woke to my hearing from harbour and neighbour wood And the mussel pooled and the heron […]

Poem on his Birthday In the mustardseed sun, By full tilt river and switchback sea Where the cormorants scud, In his house on stilts high among […]

Prologue This day winding down now At God speeded summer’s end In the torrent salmon sun, In my seashaken house On a breakneck of rocks Tangled […]

Should Lanterns Shine Should lanterns shine, the holy face, Caught in an octagon of unaccustomed light, Would wither up, an any boy of love Look twice […]