(an excerpt) Thrice with shrill note the boatswain’s whistle rung:‘All hands unmoor!’ proclaims a boisterous cry;‘All hands unmoor!’ the caverned rocks reply:Roused from repose aloft the sailors swarm,And with their levers soon the windlass arm:The order given, up springing with a bound,They fix the bars, and heave the windlass round;At every turn the clanging pauls […]
Enjoy abseiling, hang-gliding, rollercoasters. Are sloping off for a sly fag mid-morning. Don’t care what they eat: fish suppers, pizza, doughnuts, Campbell’s meatballs. Will open that second bottle. Are the bad girl in Grease, all surly attitude leading to ruin. Don’t care about their career, spend six months in the Andes. Won’t fasten their seatbelt […]
There is one grief worse than any other.
/ When your small feverish throat clogged, and quit
/ I knelt beside the chair on…
Take your risk of life and death
/ Underneath the open sky.
/ Live clean or go out quick –
/ Lads, you’re wanted. Come and…
Go up go down. Sit tight for now. Or move. Don’t move. It’s all in
/ hand. Make a call on…
You have picked me out.
Through a distant shot of a building burning
you have noticed now
that a white cotton shirt is twirling, turning.
Here even the valley of the shadow of death / has taken upon itself the mantle of beauty.
All this second night
/ the wind drops slates into gardens
/ bends steel radio masts at the chimney
/ smashes their teeth on…
Up in the dazzling dryness, mayflies dance,
/ tempting with tastiness all those who dare
/ leap through the world’s skin into empty air.
/ The…
pull
/ a
/ rope
/ and
/ the
/ rope
/ pulls
/ in
/ the
/ forest
/ and
/ with
/ the
/ forest
/ leopards
/ come
/ to
/ town.
/ …
Tenderness is mandatory.
/ Careless lurches may draw blood,
/ enthusiasms leave abrasions,
/ excessive ardour has been known
/ to snap off spinal plates.
/
/ There is the constant…
This time he fell in the abyss on his horse, and the Sun fell with him
/ And his voice never reached…
