Prohibition Incident
A woman, walking slowly in her proud pregnancy on a hot Bombay pavement, turned coyly from the eyes of knowing men. Folds of her sari were ribbons of cloud round the moon of her......
Nights In The Gardens Of Port Of Spain
Night, a black summer, simplifies her smells, makes her a village; she assumes the impenetrable mask of the negro, grows secret as sweat, her alleys odorous with shucked oyster......
Five Poems
The signs are of a bad day. Before waking An apprehension of disquiet, premonition of shaking Foundations, of shaking itself. Yet dreams were real And rejecting morning the......
Wracked Birds In That Nest Gape For The Twirling Worm.
They blind each other with naked elbows. Their claws are crumpled needles. They gape for the spinning world. They build from wrecks To be launched one day on the watery wind-......
Hiding Our Love
After Wu-TI Never believe leave you From any desire to go. Never believe I live so far away Except from necessity. After a whole day of separation Still your dark fragrance......
Human And Inhuman
The Belfry of Bruges. By Alexander Reissner. (John Calder, 12s. 6d.) THE most pressing reason for buying New Writers 2 is not that it contains Robert Pinget's 'The Old Tune,'......
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