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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

Wind-flowers After Chernobyl

Wood-anemones,
Easter bridesmaids
shiver in a bitter breeze,
bending their heads together.
Blood-tinged petals
pale as skin-flakes
tremble on the wind.

Winds from the east
scatter evil seed
planted in bone
to blanche the blood.
There is a shudder
along the vein as, slowly,
the white blooms multiply.

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