Poems

Australia A Nation of trees, drab green and desolate grey In the field uniform of modern wars, Darkens her hills, those endless, outstretched paws Of Sphinx […]

Conquistador I sing of the decline of Henry Clay Who loved a white girl of uncommon size. Although a small man in a little way, He […]

Crossing the Frontier Crossing the frontier they were stopped in time, Told, quite politely, they would have to wait: Passports in order, nothing to declare And […]

Death of the Bird For every bird there is this last migration; Once more the cooling year kindles her heart; With a warm passage to the […]

Easter Hymn Make no mistake; there will be no forgiveness; No voice can harm you and no hand will save; Fenced by the magic of deliberate […]

Going to Bed Chloe, let down that chestnut hair; Let it flow full; let it fall free; Loosen that zone, those clasps that bare Your breasts: […]

Meditation on a Bone A piece of bone, found at Trondhjem in 1901, with the following runic inscription (about A.D. 1050) cut on it: I loved […]

Morning Coffee Reading the menu at the morning service: – Iced Venusberg perhaps, or buttered bum – Orders the usual sex-ersatz, and, nervous, Glances around – […]

Observation Car To be put on the train and kissed and given my ticket, Then the station slid backward, the shops and the neon lighting, Reeling […]

Parabola Year after year the princess lies asleep Until the hundred years foretold are done, Easily drawing her enchanted breath. Caught on the monstrous thorns around […]