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Any Morning Just lying on the couch and being happy.Only humming a little, the quiet sound in the head.Trouble is busy elsewhere at the moment, it hasso much to do in the world. People who might judge are mostly asleep; … Continue reading →

What goes faster every time I turn around How odd that as I ageI move slowerand time runs twice as fast. When I was little, schooltook three years to pass,ring upon ring of hours. When I was young, summervacation was … Continue reading →

My Heart I’m not going to cry all the timenor shall I laugh all the time,I  don’t prefer one “strain” to another.I’d have the immediacy of a bad movie,not just a sleeper, but also the big,overproduced first-run kind. I want … Continue reading →

Today If ever there were a spring day so perfect,so uplifted by a warm intermittent breeze that it made you want to throw open all the windows in the house and unlatch the door to the canary’s cage,indeed, rip the little … Continue reading →

Sea Sonnet A field, a sea-flower, three stones, a stile.Not one thing close to another throughout air. The cliffs’ uplifted lawns.You and I walk light as wicker in virtual contact. Prepositions lie exposed. All alongthe swimmer is deeper than the water.I … Continue reading →

Here by the Sea Here by the prodigal and ever-pouring seaThe watcher has enough to watch, the sea being wideEnough for the eye and wide and deep enough for the mind.Between this coast and Spain is room for any shipTo … Continue reading →

To My Seventeen-Year-Old Self Your friends are sniffing gluefrom a paper bagin the back of an Impalatooling around Nilesand Morton Grovelooking for something to escape whatever boredomor childhood damageeveryone suffers,but don’t get high with themin a sputtering carthat your girlfriendrefuses to enter,don’t lie … Continue reading →

Leaving and Leaving You When I leave your postcode and your commuting station,When I leave undone the things that we planned to doYou may feel you have been left by associationBut there is leaving and there is leaving you. When … Continue reading →

The thirsty earth soaks up the rain,And drinks and gapes for drink again;The plants suck in the earth, and areWith constant drinking fresh and fair;The sea itself (which one would thinkShould have but little need of drink)Drinks ten thousand rivers … Continue reading →