- A-CRISIS
"I had to.stop short And take atock and consider, léarn peace again" "What was bettar to do, To lose myself in the fight And fall unach
- A-NEWTONIAN-SONNET
A Nowtonian Sonnet was written in the 19th century. The sonnet is called "A Dream wont Down"
- A-QUICK-NOTE
"I cannot make rhymes; the pain Is too much. There is no time. Hy hands tremble too much To pause for
- A-RECORD
The body is tired and stretohes In ite battered state. There has been Torture. The faces are unseane Arms are
- BEFORE-TOO-LATE
So often heart must rise and fall, its séems, like mountain, then 1ike wind, and then the aun. In gleans of tiny 1ight that sometimes mean a
- BIRDS
Birds' lives are as subtle As the stars that turn Without innér enginess Listen to the rooks Arguing loudly While the
- CHRISTMAS-IS-OVER
Christmas is over, the geese are doad; Presents have been given, And unolos fed. Chiokens were throttled, Turkeys wara splits Geese knocked out, And wild duoks hit.
- ENGLAND
England, hilla, farma, Lovely untouched bride For whom we died, Weloome our broken faces Baok to your shade
- EPISODES
Episodese tells of a boy who was terrified by the prospect of war. The vinegar-man used to come on Friday n
- FROM-THE-SILENCE
From the silence of the brain Come cities, fortunes, wars. Once the mind has goné insane, Come murders, divisions, more.
- GETTING-HET-UP
"I'm tired, tiredi Al1 my life They've been looking at my 1ips And my hands and the cut Of my coat and my walk. And now I get tired And try to teach myself silence And burn alone. It im't vary nicet"
- INFINITIVES
"Let the silence Roach inside us, through To the heart and the organs" "Maké us stand Alive again in a marv
- LEAVE-ME-A-TIME
Leave me a time in the ahades In the darkneass trying to see the way Of the light, looking in' each face. Laave
- MEMORIAL
I saw your face as we walked past yesterday At the end of a race. You were leaning against The back of a car that was open like an army truck. You had a black moustache, I remember.
- NEARLY-WRECKED
Nearly wrecked, nearly reaohed the time or finai ébb, whon the seas give out. Facès grotesque, voices squeaking, hips Protruding, gawky walks.
- NULL-STATE
In null world, When nothing calle, Must learn to yielde: In nothing-world, With endless walls, must learn to
- PALE-FLAT-FACES
Pale, flat fades with liquid eyes Aro looking after your destinies. Seeing to your government, On sooial goodness
- RED
Robin perched on a soldier's hand who had lain for a week in the blinding sand. Not a boat to be seen,
- ROOM
Little room, fbiend of distress, Window to copper light, torture. For an afternoon, my aight of birda;
- THE-BLUE
Blue is the high dark blue round the earth, you cans find a there if you like, or none; If none, then that's the nessage Your eyea will carry.
- THE-DEMONS
"These demons are more Than memory and brain. Give me light again. I've numbered the days, four"
- THE-DREAM
Your name was Marsh. You were killed sixteen years ago, in a tower. A shell burst at the window. You died at once. You took so long to come again.
- THE-EDGE
Many faces have turned away From you. You are lonely; why? There is a truth to speak And it must be spoken. You
- THE-LAST-TRAVELLERS
"We're the last and stand together; fetch Our collapsible ohafrs. We'll talk whilo we wait. The trains are the samé As before; end to end their
- THE-MOON
"I toll myself to let Dia my will To porsuados" "I would slowly glide Through the wators of the earth Loaving no trail
- TOUCHING-YOUR-GOD
Your God resta safe insidas And you can touch Him in unsafe moments. But comes a time when He will not be touched.
- TWENTIETH-CANTICLE
Quiet in villages breeds the hope of disturbanoe. The hope of disturbance breeds the disturb anoe itself.
- WE-SEARCHED-FOR-EACH-OTHER
We Soarohed for Each Other. We found each other. We drifted to the home We had always looked for.