Friday, 7 June 2013

Two Poems of Mine from 1982: This Raven and The White Oar/ concerned with the impact on consciousness of post traumatic stress disorder/will be in the upcoming Sledgehammer Collective book

This Raven

this natural world
this need delivering need
this time in its keeping
this graphite sky
this certain projection.
this raven pitched in black scape
this only colour
is its sound.



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A White Oar

drop your warmed heart here
in the svelte tide
a full kiss
upon the tired lips
of your treasure map.

your veins are courting harbours
highways, dells
where loaded cows
topple from
steep serious slopes of a rickety imagination.

linguism of poetry
hieroglyphic and phantic
as printing
and all the
endless, endless, ending love.

all power to you.
I caress the rabbits
in your magic hat of a head
and swim
to your mythic boat
as you leave the sonar harbour.

the rollicks ache with rhyme
and a white oar rolls in anthracite space.

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