The Bargain - by
The river in January is fast and high.
/ You and I
/ are off to the Barrows.
/ Gathering police-horses twitch and fret
/ at the Tron…
Place: Glasgow
Trio - by
Orphean sprig! Melting baby! Warm chihuahua!
The vale of tears is powerless before you.
Whether Christ is born, or is not born, you
put paid to fate, it abdicates
under the Christmas lights.
Good Friday - by
Three o’clock. The bus lurches
/ round into the sun. ‘D’s this go –‘
/ he flops beside me – ‘right along Bath Street?
/ -…
Glasgow Street - by
Out of this ugliness may come
/ some day, so beautiful a flower
/ that men…
Glasgow - by
Sing, Poet, ’tis a merry world;
/ That cottage smoke is rolled and curled
/ …
Second Lives - by
Leaves turn sere and there are bings
/ from networks stretching in through the window:
/ you could tiptoe now among the stubby thumbs…
Nine One Word Poems - by
A Far Cool Beautiful Thing, Vanishing
/ blue
/
/
/ The Dear Green Plaice
/ Glasgow
/
/
/ Homage to Zukofsky
/ …
Glasgow 5 March 1971 - by
With a ragged diamond
/ of shattered plate-glass
/ a young man and his girl
/ are falling backwards into a shop-window.
/ The young man’s face
/ is bristling…
A Glasgow nonsense rhyme for Molly - by
Molly Pin Li McLaren,
/ come home and look
/ at the pictures in your brand-new book –
/ a tree, a bird, a fish, a…
Great Western Road - by
Glasgow, you look beatific in blue
/ and I’ve a Saturday before me
/ for galleries and poems,
/ a house full of Haydn,
/ and beneath my…
Clydegrad - by
It was so fine we lingered there for hours.
/ The long broad streets shone strongly after rain.
/ Sunset blinded the tremble of…
Dream Calendar - by
/ Red neon burns
/ on brickwork: Tyres & Exhausts.
/
/ As if we didn’t know.
/
/ The hunt’s livener
/ outside the Tontine.
/
/ A trail of port in the…