GRAVE
From every body dropped
into the not quite solid earth
ripples of might have been
Category: String Too Short To Save
BACK IN AMERICA – NEWS OF BOMBING
BACK IN AMERICA – NEWS OF BOMBING
Before we came to Israel
this was happening in our world
now it is happening on our street
A TOAST TO OUR HOSTS
A TOAST TO OUR HOSTS
People of Israel
thank you for opening
we have fallen into your hearts
I STILL DON’T GET IT
I STILL DON’T GET IT
When all is said
and oh so much is done
each side makes perfect sense
what they do to each other makes none
A CALL
A CALL
Five times a day
Moslems climb their towers
to interrupt my prayers
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