• Apology For Lions
The man who keeps a lion in his house Never lacks company, visitors Call daily, provided of course The beast is tame, house-trained, Willing to shake hands And purr when......
Five New Poems
End of the Season See this evening the marvellous hawk amazes The screaming sparrow, the petulant, grounded boy: From where he hangs still in the measured sky Regards the......
• Baie Des Anges
For once a simple image: moonlight on A strip of gently moving water. Love Makes it a system of comparison. The clear unchanging tone and lustre of The light is emblem for the......
Wounded Soldiers
It was always a dwarf pine they asked for, Before cigarettes. Was it themselves they saw— crippled and bound? Or their squat country, twisted and pruned, Contained in a tipsy......
The Crabs
Fishermen waking into a morning haze That holds in solution the crystalline heat of the day Yawn in disgust. For the crabs on the seabed laze When the water is clear: to torpor......