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Makings ’84-’88

Further earlier poems recollected

Published 3rd November 2008
A5, 28pp, stapled, card cover
ISBN 978-1-905465-19-4

£4.00
Contents:
– ’The laughing stick’
Ragwort
To the Bicycle
– Sunflower Seeds
The White Hyacinth
Yard Spring
– Five Songs of a Stepfather
Angels Bandits
Song of the Iranian Prostitutes
– Parian
Marmoreal
– Daughter’s Departure
Dawn’s Early Light
Miss P.
– Froth
– The Generations of Omo
Composure: an Ode
– Corvine
– Birdhead
– The Heron’s Bride
 

 

 

 


Daughter’s Departure


An indented circle,
the mark on your cheek of her earring,
tells the force of your parting,
tearful clasp a quarter-hour after she’s gone.

Unforeseen, the osprey young’s first flight looks –
a slight leap into the wind
off the rough circle her wings’
beating has fanned for days.

Before northern weathers have wrecked that nest
she’ll fish African waters,
with luck. Now limbs twist to control
her climb from sticks to eaglehood.

 

 
 
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