the river
is filled
with the sea
a tug pulls
a square barge
under the bridge
St Thomas’
is lit ...
a mortality
of wrens
is upon us
because the boys
are in the town
saying they are
the men now ...
sun casts
a sodium light
on the clattering woods
what pops
the visual field -
strokes of havoc
on the aspen ...
the heron
fishes the pond
at the weir’s foot
where the perch
are harboured
and the water runs
and is ...
our teaching
is that time
and eternity
are locked in battle
that there are
two kingdoms
of light and darkness ...
don’t cling
to the harbour
and its shallow shores
this is a narrow country
which runs
north and south
what ...
that old Hittite
Homer
told how
the weather god
shot numbing flights
of arrowhead snow
into the land
so that ...
war in Etruria
was a red boy
playing with the guts
of slaughtered animals
he was searching for
an organ ...
what boy is that
sitting
in clods of earth
as the gulls circle round
the kid appeared
in a flash ...
the town
has been populated
with water tankers
after the earthquake
had cut it off
from the spring
until the ...