A CALL
Five times a day
Moslems climb their towers
to interrupt my prayers
Category: String Too Short To Save
FORGIVENESS (the first sword)
FORGIVENESS (the first sword)
And the first sword
that I beat into a plowshare
must be the one that injured me
EVENINGS SO QUIET
EVENINGS SO QUIET
You can hear the chameleons
changing to their darker suits
CANADIANS SPEAKING
CANADIANS SPEAKING
In the apologetic case
type eh? behaviour
PERHAPS IT ISN’T BY CHANCE
PERHAPS IT ISN’T BY CHANCE
Woman is shaped like a wound
man like a lance
MADRID, MARCH 2004
MADRID, MARCH 2004
God, Spain again
scraping Guernicas from
walls of trains
ALMS IN THE LAND OF ALLAH
ALMS IN THE LAND OF ALLAH
And it will all be returned to you
multiplied ten fold
heaped up and running over
WE ARE THE FISH
WE ARE THE FISH
So afraid of other fish
we crawled up onto the shore
IF A NOVEL
IF A NOVEL
Is a mirror walking down a road
then a poem is a mirrored room
convex on the ceiling
concave on the floor
READY
READY
Trying to get my poetry ready
for when the world is ready
for poetry