Embrace Me II - by
sometimes what I’d love
is to put an end to poems
dreams
33 - by
I dreamed of a sawdust chandelierwhose crystals were drops of driftwood dredgedfrom all the world’s shipwrecks: god’s figurehead,and it swung, as I dreamt, ever closer to my fear,softly releasing sweet incense into the clear,black night air, as that great barge carries the dead,but instead of my death, it passaged my dreadand the water it ploughed […]
The Bridge Over The Atlantic - by
They took our birlinn, stem and stern-postsHigh as a Venetian gondola’s, and up-turned it.Every tide in the bladder-wracked sea-tongue its keel Bridged, swam the eel-currentRaces that tracked South and NorthInto and out of the Atlantic. And theyDocked our tongues, every man’s that daredGive out a taste of his father’s banter,Effortless sound-shapes an islander’s born to. […]
It Was Easier - by
Now over the map that took ten million years
/ Of rain and sun to crust like boiler-slag,
/ The lines of fighting men…
Miracle - by
He went directly and unhurried and scanned the smattering.
/
/ Wingbit snagskin throatlap furthew clawlid eyespit oarfire.
/ Oarfire? No, that’s just dreams talking.
‘In a dream’ - by
In a dream / I saw a ticket booth / at a bus stop where / birds’ feathers were sold…
To Martin - by
Times
/ In the quiet and dusk of
/ Night, I have wakened
/ Inside a dream of neutral languor,
/ Confessing (with a smile) that my years
/ Point…
Last Night I Dreamt - by
Last night I dreamt of Mama’s house
/ But mama wasn’t there
/ Still her essence wafted through
/ As carried on the air
/ Her windows they…
Today I dreamed all day… - by
Today I dreamed all day. I dreamed
/ I drove round Bukhara. I dreamed
/ dizzy minarets, I dreamed
/ rosegardens skimmed my shoes.
/ I dreamed I…
In Fields of Sleepdreaming - by
The pack of wild colts went smoking by,
/ muzzles ferocious, hides hirsute,
/ manes swept out stiff, bold, like thick staves;
/ they came through…
To Alexander Graham - by
Lying asleep walking
/ Last night I met my father
/ Who seemed pleased to see me.
/ He wanted to speak. I saw
/ His mouth…
Spell of the bridge - by
Hold the wish on your tongue
/ As you cross
/ What the bridge cannot hear
/ Cannot fall
/
/ For the river would carry…