Risky Breasts - by
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…
danger
Daughter - by
There is one grief worse than any other.
/ When your small feverish throat clogged, and quit
/ I knelt beside the chair on…
Recruiting - by
Take your risk of life and death
/ Underneath the open sky.
/ Live clean or go out quick –
/ Lads, you’re wanted. Come and…
Out of the Blue – 7 - by
Go up go down. Sit tight for now. Or move. Don’t move. It’s all in
/ hand. Make a call on…
Out of the Blue – 12 - by
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.
Sonnet - by
Here even the valley of the shadow of death / has taken upon itself the mantle of beauty.
from Lifeboat Disaster - by
All this second night
/ the wind drops slates into gardens
/ bends steel radio masts at the chimney
/ smashes their teeth on…
Fish-eye - by
Up in the dazzling dryness, mayflies dance,
/ tempting with tastiness all those who dare
/ leap through the world’s skin into empty air.
/ The…
Careful! - by
pull
/ a
/ rope
/ and
/ the
/ rope
/ pulls
/ in
/ the
/ forest
/ and
/ with
/ the
/ forest
/ leopards
/ come
/ to
/ town.
/ …
The Mating of Dinosaurs - by
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…
from Nomad in the sunset - by
This time he fell in the abyss on his horse, and the Sun fell with him
/ And his voice never reached…
Parachute men say . . . - by
Parachute men say
/ The first jump
/ Takes the breath away
/ Feet in the air disturb
/ Till you get used to it.
/
/ Solid ground
/ Is not where…