Poems

To A Familiar Genius Flying By Reveal yourself, anonymous enchanter! What heaven hastens you to me? Why draw me to that promised land again That I […]

A Conceited Mistake Once upon a time there was a mistake So silly so small That no one would even have noticed it It couldn’t bear […]

A Forgetful Number Once upon a time there was a number Pure and round like the sun But alone very much alone It began to reckon […]

Anne Pennington Until her last breath she enlarges Her Oxford house Built in Slavonic Vowels and consonants She polishes the corner-stones Until their Anglo-Saxon shine Begins […]

Before The Game Shut one eye then the other Peek into every corner of yourself See that there are no nails no thieves See that there […]

Between Games Nobody rests This one constantly shifts his eyes Hangs them on his head And whether he wants it or not starts walking backwards He […]

Far Within Us #1 We raise our arms The street climbs into the sky We lower our eyes The roofs go down into the earth From […]

Far Within Us #2 Look here’s that uninvited Alien presence look it’s here A shudder on the ocean of tea in the cup Rust taking hold […]

Far Within Us #3 Unquiet you walk Along the rims of my eyes On the invisible grating Before your lips My naked words shiver We steal […]

Far Within Us #4 Green gloves rustle On the avenue’s branches The evening carries us under its arm By a path which leaves no trace The […]