A Memory of Death - by
Nineteen fifty six was a momentous year,
/ The year of Suez…
Nineteen fifty six was a momentous year,
/ The year of Suez…
You don’t see many hedges these days, and the hedges you do see
they’re not that thorny, it’s a shame, and when I say a hedge
I’m not talking about a row of twigs between two lines of rusty
barbed wire, or more likely just a big prairie where there were
whole cities of hedges…
Summer climbs the mountains.
Flowers overcolour and blanch.
Men leave the sun and sit,
tree-tented, by the cold creek.
From the window of the Hardie-Condie Café, I see the ghost of a …
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/ The third film was in Beijing when Antony and I decided to hit the hutongs one last time on the…
for Richard Price
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/ The poet kibbled among flowers: acanthus and lilac, the extremely unglaswegian hosted beneath our palace of glass, twined…
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