Sunday, 8 May 2011
Fragments, scraps and off cuts of Scavengers
Plate VII. Male & female
cockroaches with egg-sac,
spiders’ webs, a cedar in
Highgate cemetery.
XII.
blue tit at coconut
unusual site of blackbird’s nest
this rookery too was deserted
Plate IV
XIII.
large horizontal branches
of the trees . ecclesiastical of birds
the jackdaw must rank
Plate V
XIII.
in the grounds
of the Zoo
- her normal clutch
Plate XI
XIII.
most ancient rookery sites
three cartloads of sticks
- hung on longer
Plate XII
XIV.
nothing zipped pass
the decaying notes of the moon
& its metres-wide
disintegration
of atoms.
Saturday, 7 May 2011
The Scavengers of London eBook on The Red Ceilings Press
Read my new poetry ebook, The Scavengers Of London, for free, on the excellent The Red Ceilings Press.
Link straight to it here.
extract
flood of buildings. London’s
many little streams & flatlands
after the conquest of Waterloo
Link straight to it here.
extract
flood of buildings. London’s
many little streams & flatlands
after the conquest of Waterloo
the metropolis sacrificed
engulfed by fruit & vegetables
the marshiness of much
woodcock & snipe
five fields till the middle
decaying stalks of the flowering rush
by the osier pond. A common
bird along a small hillock
instead of through a sewer
engulfed by fruit & vegetables
the marshiness of much
woodcock & snipe
five fields till the middle
decaying stalks of the flowering rush
by the osier pond. A common
bird along a small hillock
instead of through a sewer
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