Well?
When people ask questions,
do they need answers
or do they want replies?
Snubbed
How close we clash:
the dismissive sneer on your
face is archetypal.
Thoughts
Absentminded, masked
dances: the almost-wished-for
vanishes, sighing.
Hold-up
Greenflies crawl across my page:
I must pause for weak wings
or wound my words.
Lorry
The immanence* of its approach
darkens the puddle,
narrows the thought.
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*not 'imminence' (it's a play on words) though 'imminence' might make an easier sense.
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Tapestries
PoëziePoems from 1978 onwards. These poems are in a different style from the later MajorSeventh, the earlier ones often with more of an Eastern-influenced cadence. Later, they vary a lot in form and style.
