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“I call him “Old Bold-Stones” Within a ribbed structure built not unlike a cage Yet, not having the same quality of confinement, The open box of the day was lying Lid unhinged to a swing of mourning whales all dressed in widowhoods. Sunset's blood threw a spotted sop – That kaleidoscope in the spout Of the great sperm-son's vent. Come, crash me thunderdown. Come, flash me whipplecrack. Wave winged Sweat wet. Frond weed. Pondweed. And as thunderdown of policemen Shouting the empty place neath The arches of the once-red now Brown, grey sandstone bridge, Trout with a suspicion of feet lurking quiet in unseen spaces between frond weed and bold stones.”

“I am sure If I were An artist I would concentrate On the bone end Of a bird’s broken wing Or the bullet hole In cold, damp, dead flesh And the transition from death’s cold warmth To the putrefaction Of a biochemical mess And I am sure If I were An artist That these dead and dying things Which are within themselves Beauty Would bring me closer To her life And to her Beauty Which is beauty within itself”

“There was no reason Why I was sitting there Poised firmly on the edge Of a visible silence A terrible leashed quiet as though The dogs of hell had rushed by Five jaw-snapping minutes earlier Dragging this concert of silence behind them Tied to their tails by An eternal (endless) string. I, there, sitting Poised firmly on the edge And wondering why there was no hope. But no one told me Ever ...”