Good Friday - by
Am I a stone, and not a sheep, / That I can stand, O Christ, beneath Thy cross, / To…
gods
Don’t Hesitate to Ask - by
So many of the people I’ve
/ informed that she is dead
/ have said
/ ‘If there’s anything
/ we can do, anything at all,
/ don’t hesitate…
Late Call - by
Lord, this is pip-squeak calling.
/ Even with your infinite technology
/ I expect your line’s busy. Therefore
/ forgive me my witter, tucked…
Avoiding the gods - by
They have come
/ to scald our blood, to call us out
/ from our bright houses to the twisted shadows under trees.
/ Let us…
Blessing - by
There is a god who tends / the empty corners of public places / the spaces where no one goes…
The God of Sugar (Sugar Shed, Greenock) - by
Cavernous – and empty now – / no shouts of dockers, / no barefoot women shovelling / molasses – it…
Dionysus and the Maiden - by
after Nonnus
/
/ I
/
/ Her only home was here in this forest, among the high rocks,
/ sending her long arrows in flight through…
3D - by
In the loco…
/ the machine-god,
/ cap and boilersuit,
/ holds the pistons’ mystery in his hand.
/
/ In the Pullman…
/ the First-Class god
/ mellows projects in conditioned air.
/
/ And…
Gin I Was God - by
Gin I was God, sittin’ up there abeen,
/ Weariet nae doot noo a’ my darg was deen,
/ Deaved wi’ the…
Wife to Noah - by
I didna speak
/ whan it bleetert doon.
/ Ma man wis gey taen up wi’ getting us
/ sortit, an’ it wis…
The Book of the World - by
Of this fair volume which we World do name
/ If we the sheets and leaves could turn with care,
/ Of him who…