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  • The Whitsun Weddings
    That Whitsun, I was late getting away:
    Not till about
    80 lines
  • An Arundel Tomb
    Side by side, their faces blurred,
    The earl and countess lie in stone,
    42 lines
  • Home Is So Sad
    Home is so sad. It stays as it was left,
    Shaped to the comfort of the last to go
    10 lines
  • For Sidney Bechet
    That note you hold, narrowing and rising, shakes
    Like New Orleans reflected on the water,
    17 lines
  • Water
    If I were called in
    To construct a religion
    13 lines
  • Send No Money
    Standing under the fobbed
    Impendent belly of Time
    24 lines
  • Talking In Bed
    Talking in bed ought to be easiest,
    Lying together there goes back so far,
    12 lines, 1 comment
  • Dockery And Son
    'Dockery was junior to you,
    Wasn't he?' said the Dean. 'His son's here now.'
    52 lines
  • Mcmxiv
    Those long uneven lines
    Standing as patiently
    32 lines
  • The Importance Of Elsewhere
    Lonely in Ireland, since it was not home,
    Strangeness made sense. The salt rebuff of speech,
    13 lines
  • Nothing To Be Said
    For nations vague as weed,
    For nomads among stones,
    19 lines
  • Faith Healing
    Slowly the women file to where he stands
    Upright in rimless glasses, silver hair,
    30 lines
  • Ambulances
    Closed like confessionals, they thread
    Loud noons of cities, giving back
    30 lines, 1 comment
  • A Study Of Reading Habits
    When getting my nose in a book
    Cured most things short of school,
    19 lines, 5 comments
  • Wild Oats
    About twenty years ago
    Two girls came in where I worked -
    24 lines, 1 comment
  • Love Songs In Age
    She kept her songs, they kept so little space,
    The covers pleased her:
    24 lines
  • Triple Time
    This empty street, this sky to blandness scoured,
    This air, a little indistinct with autumn
    15 lines
  • Ignorance
    Strange to know nothing, never to be sure
    Of what is true or right or real,
    15 lines
  • Toads Revisited
    Walking around in the park
    Should feel better than work:
    36 lines
  • First Sight
    Lambs that learn to walk in snow
    When their bleating clouds the air
    14 lines, 1 comment
  • Take One Home For The Kiddies
    On shallow straw, in shadeless glass,
    Huddled by empty bowls, they sleep:
    8 lines
  • Essential Beauty
    In frames as large as rooms that face all ways
    And block the ends of streets with giant loaves,
    32 lines
  • Sunny Prestatyn
    Come to Sunny Prestatyn
    Laughed the girl on the poster,
    24 lines, 2 comments
  • Mr Bleaney
    'This was Mr Bleaney's room. He stayed
    The whole time he was at the Bodies, till
    28 lines
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