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Makings ’89-’91

Final earlier poems recollected

Published 3rd November 2008
A5, 28pp, stapled, card cover
ISBN 978-1-905465-20-0
£4.00

Contents:
– Before the Empires
– Ur
– Exile
– Unseen Light
– Blake and Wordsworth
– Her Last Pictures
– Waiting for Buzzards
– Brotherswater
– Vallier & Cézanne
– Portrait of the Sun
– An ABC
– To a Civilian Casualty
– Fish for Breakfast
– Fixtures

from Brotherswater

Our climb seems through thought’s levels.
Following the beck’s course, books

and such, till the valley head
and scramble from combe to col

where hands do service for feet.
Breathers at the halfway view

stand to tackle aesthetics
a minute, then bring the lake

round the hill with ten more steps.
In the saddle of the ridge

fresh wind flexes the spirit
and five words of love suffice.