The Seed-At-Zero
The seed-at-zero shall not storm That town of ghosts, the trodden womb, With her rampart to his tapping, No god-in-hero […]
The seed-at-zero shall not storm That town of ghosts, the trodden womb, With her rampart to his tapping, No god-in-hero […]
One Christmas was so much like another, in those years around the sea-town corner now and out of all sound […]
O Out of a bed of love When that immortal hospital made one more moove to soothe The curless counted […]
When the morning was waking over the war He put on his clothes and stepped out and he died, The […]
O make me a mask and a wall to shut from your spies Of the sharp, enamelled eyes and the […]
It was my thirtieth year to heaven Woke to my hearing from harbour and neighbour wood And the mussel pooled […]
My hero bares his nerves along my wrist That rules from wrist to shoulder, Unpacks the head that, like a […]
All that I owe the fellows of the grave And all the dead bequeathed from pale estates Lies in the […]
Where once the waters of your face Spun to my screws, your dry ghost blows, The dead turns up its […]
I I see the boys of summer in their ruin Lay the gold tithings barren, Setting no store by harvest, […]
Ears in the turrets hear Hands grumble on the door, Eyes in the gables see The fingers at the locks. […]
I have longed to move away From the hissing of the spent lie And the old terrors’ continual cry Growing […]
I Our eunuch dreams, all seedless in the light, Of light and love the tempers of the heart, Whack their […]
Because the pleasure-bird whistles after the hot wires, Shall the blind horse sing sweeter? Convenient bird and beast lie lodged […]
Was there a time when dancers with their fiddles In children’s circuses could stay their troubles? There was a time […]