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Short poems


Maria Ewing, Covent Garden. 1992

I’d not seen Salome before


Thornham Parva

The pylon, crude as a child’s drawing,


Normal for Norfolk

Such harmless beauty


Conundrum

Shrinking violet


Ipomoea

A moment’s glory:


Ways to go

The spider offers to the fly


A brief memorial

When all that’s left of me is ash and words


Men like birds

The migrant butcher bird or shrike


Boundary condition

Seeking the act in innocence  is love;


Towards a calculus of desire

Shouldering apart The gates,


Thank you (Wittgenstein)

(Considering the use of words using words is


Limericks

My song is of Mme Pereire


To LG and GS after my interview, a brief verse

As men and women surely must


Politics

Steep the hemlock,


Ipomoea

A moment’s glory: