3 MAY 1963, page 24

Six Poems

Refusing a Dance Concords true picture shineth in this art Ninety-eight miles to the sea, Arrived late in the day To find sunshine gone and the sea Like the has blue-grey: It......

Path6tique

Early fell to the spell of, What wrong have I done love? Wondered with you how Gracefully not to allow Sense a way. Did not know Flesh has its mind, of danger, Whose coolness is......

The Half-full Glass

I told you I was drained of happiness. The wine was only half-way down our glasses• You said to me, 'Are you not happy now?' Searching my heart, I had to own I. was. How should......

Grand Canal

Your hair that makes the most of vines, Blue shirt against the trellis, and goggles Like insect's eyes, reflecting the lagoon. That's all the Kodacolour yields To which I add a......

Sixty Gulls

Sixty gulls seed this field with white, Salting each furrow, crumbling the soil That falls in slabs like fruit cake. Serene in air, They waddle on the ground, their feet......

That Room

Side by side on the narrow bed We lay, like chained giants, Tasting each other's tears, in terror Of the news which left nothing to hide But our two faces that stared To ritual......