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Poems

1 Magpies
2 Chernobyl
3 Return to Chernobyl
4 Absence
5 Circumlocution
6 Persephone
7 Erebus revisited
8 Alice's Cat
9 Sometimes I see a cloud
10 Lost Child
11 On the coach to Hay-on-Wye
12 Brecon Cathedral
13 Honeymoon
14 Waiting
15 How can I say I love you?
16 Eclipse of the Moon  
17 Big Issue
18 Resurrection

"SOMETIMES WE SEE A CLOUD THAT'S DRAGONISH."
Antony and Cleopatra.

As well as a reckless primrose
this premature spring shows

flickering perspectives of sky.
Cumulus drifts deceive the eye

as cloudy masses peak and cape,
illusions in a kaleidoscope.

Languishing against a cool sun
pale wafer of a daytime moon

melts in airy transubstantiation.
Numinous variation

of pattern. Stormlight
screens an awesome silhouette;

god becomes dog. Nothing may stay.
A blink, a moment's turning away,

a birth, a death, a marriage rift.
Subtly lifescapes shift.

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