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A Day in the Life of a War There is cherry blossom drifting on the wind, blossom which is pink-white and white-pink.
A Fireman Writes They breathe the same air, that's the worst of it. / They leave it wet, you can smell their exudate, / You can hear their castanets, their soft suede shoes
A Mantra This is the meditation of steel, / Mahatma, Bodhivsattra - / My fingers slick the oil / Over breech-block and gas plug.
A Short Poem A short / Poem
/ Struts / On stilts
Camouflage
Shape. / And the clouds shape the phoenix / And are ignored.
Cicada Sun - a New Zealand poem -
In the cicada's season, down at the Cove, we watched /
The long swell which banks the summer berm / In tangles of scintillating mica, cracked shell,
Coming Into Harbour - a meditation on the death of the writer's maternal grandfather. It has been days now, / With strangers in the house, / Their shadows / Changing on the walls,
Desolter Lost amidst machines
Dissection: An Opossum As the scalpel peeled the skin from the intestines, / A week's decay gave evidence of its workings.
Dragon Relaxed within razors. / Attuned to the heartbeat of silence, /
The ecstasy of zero.
Dreamscape With Giraffes I am a search engine. / My landscape is XX erotic.
Dreams of Lothlorien - a city poem, a poem of urban life.
Fragments
She sang in the rain, contriving galactic anatomies, /
Injecting her fur coat with ultraviolet bees.
Freeze Frames
A girl and a boy / Holding hands for public inspection.
Grafton In Spring
The winds pasture in the clouds; / The earth breathes:
Helen of Troy
It is night. / Lofted above the whalesmoke waves of Ocean,
I Am A Television Set My cardboard has corners. / My orgasms are shaved by a toothbrush. / I will pipe you a music of / Gouged shoecream marrons, of /
Peppermint munitions, of / Koizumi haircuts, of / Hedgehog genocides and
I Remember
I slipped my kiss into your naked mouth. My hands
Making Peace With Bombs
We are feeding the children with promises / We are making peace with bombs
Men Without Amnesty - a poem about torture and torturers. They are masters of the smoked-glass stare. / They may be untutored men, / But they are well-versed in the scholarship of pain.
Monsoon - Delirium's downpour / Swamps the tides of evening. / Gin sets lips to champagne. / Night sweats; pearls of sweat / Squat in armpit and crotch.
Mozart the Fish Embryo poem - pregnancy poem: In a world without clocks / Something which is not yet someone / Is swimming.
Nightmare Nightmare poem - nightmare poetry: Hangs upside down in the dragon's dungeon, / Pregnant with stingrays. / Thighs leaking. / The Malatroon grins
Nine Steps to California The sky is a block of body ice. The flashlights are violet, questing. The gnarled white trees are
Petition for a Flat Earth My lords and ladies, / I am a poor man, / And a humble man. / My hand feeds myself, / Clothes myself, / Heals myself. / I know only one need / Beyond my own sustaining, / And so I make my petition: / Give us a flat earth.
Poised Between Limbo And Guantanamo George crawled into his hole, / Wet with blood, / Smiling. / The reflected zero
Proze Poem Take an image and imagine ... imagine a poem imagine a ... I'm thirsty ... imagine a waterfall poem imagine the machinegunner blank behind sunglasses
Sex Metal
Sex metal zex metal zow metal zap metal - / Look, George, look!
Snails Snails / Groove on rain / & lettuce sandwiches ... / if God / was a lettuce sandwich
Sodium Thiosulphate Sodium thiosulphate simmers /
In a clear blue stream of bunsen flame /
That whispers round the testube glass
Somewhere Far From the Sea It is a cold day but the fat boy sweats, /Giggling his jowls to bouncing blubber,
Sonnet - (Gull Flight) - iambic pentamter poem - Through long hours the flare rippled flame / On harbour waters shoaled with light
Spam Those who have fathomed my desires / Are sending me e-mail. / The world at my window, / Cams wide open, / Offering me
Still Life
Sits on his bed with his five mates round him, / Fresh from the pub,
Sun Poem Sheltered by concrete / Sufficient against nuclear attack. / The sun is a wet rag, breathable.
Test Pattern
Limp meat and a hangover / Slumps in the living room; The test pattern sucumbs to soap and suds,
The Death of Nestor
In Pylos, old man Nestor grins: too often. / Nine battlefields creak in his kneecaps.
The Death of Patroclus
Now it is noon. / At apogee of light, defined by sun, / Patroclus finds his own apotheosis. /
He is man no longer - bronze. / And Hector likewise - a rumor in the dust.
The Erasure of Certainty - a globilization poem. The erasure of certainty / Was never quite announced / But has arrived.
The Face Fearful - a hypochondria poem - The ground is a tract of infection. / The sun streams with X-rays, / And a tumour floats in the orange juice.
The Whale - a rather dutiful poem from 1977 about the wonders of the whale. The file contains a link to a rather more interesting prose piece about actually eating a whale.
The fireworks are numb. Their vocal chords are gelatine / The car is combusting, combusting, combusting.
The Kraken Wakes The little silver fish / Scatter like shrapnel
The quality of glass is light. Her touch is vanilla.
This Working Life Gouged by alarm clocks, harassed / By the feathers of soap. / Her face slips sideways. / The newspapers are preaching giraffes.
Threnody So they're leaving now, for good - / His son with his decibel music,
Tonga - medical aid mission Shrill antennae of hurricane / Worry the roof. / The spray drifts in the wind. / Yesterday, I swam / Adrift in the sponge-bath sea. /In the laboratory, / Clotted blood and faeces -
Toward Ten O'Clock - a city poem, a poem of urban life.
Trojan War - selected poetry related to the Trojan War with commentary.
very short poems - includes:-
The Fish
Van Gough
Sunflower
Cherry Blossom, April 2003
Odysseus on Delos
Warpoem
Warpoets
Waterfall - poem about a waterfall:
Under extremest skies, asundered mountains / Rift through the mist and are gone.
Wide Windows Morning comes; graves awaken / As chemical lids ajar.
Wounded, Not Yet Dead
Late afternoon. / The Greeks and Trojans scuffle in the dust.
Zenvirus - a totally irresponsible dada poem designed to make no sense. Starts:
The giraffe stroked his neck. His norlazm / Throbbed across the city.
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