More selected poems and images.

The work ploughs on, with some major tweaks in the overall content and layout which I shall hopefully be able to go in to more detail about later. In order to keep things moving here, here's a selection of some of the more recent poems and images from the book.

Meeting the Sea

We are going to meet the sea

(Any minute now)

The river is preparing for it

Robing itself in white sailcloth

Stubbing out its cigarette

In the ashtray mounted upon

The wall

The river advances

Into the mouth

Like the barrel of a gun

It turns, it gives a wave

And the sea,

Salt-thirsty

Drinks it whole

Concrete

The child looked confused:

“Wouldn’t it sound better,

If you made it out of words?”

She asked, plaintively

 

Fantasy Homes

This land is your land

You have made it

Named it and mapped it

Walked it and driven it

You have driven up the land

And you have let in the sea

This land is my land

It is the atlas of my soul

I have recorded it and analysed it

Celebrated it and eulogised it

I have woven it into dreams

And I have dreamed it into life