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The Present:
miscellaneous poems

& songs

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The Gun Site

A Norwood allotment pastoral – lines from the the beginning of Spring

 

A haiku print for William Blake

A concrete selection

Some visual poems, further to those in The Reality Street Book of Sonnets (see www.realitystreet.co.uk) and onedit (issue12)

 



 

Sitting Still
A ballad from Zeus’s Camera

 

Poludnitsa
In memory of Burhan Tufail

 

Sand of the Thames
Won the Southwark Poet of the Year competition, 2005

 

Alfred to the Barmaid
Written after a visit to the villages of Somersby and Tetford in Lincolnshire

 

Olivia

 

Ruby’s Song

 

The Promise
A callipygian ode

 

 

White Spirit
In memory of Burhan Tufail

 

Etruscan Nightingale
In memory of N'Deaye (or Inday) Ba, 1972–2005

 

The Conversation of Graves

 

‘They’re too well known’

 

‘A young sycamore’

 

Goats and Sheep
A poem partly ovine but largely capric

 

The Sea to Venus

 



And some songs

New Orleans of the Mind

Sunsong

Moments Arrived

To the Tune of Abandoned Love


 

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