Elephants

those elephants
I've never seen
thick
as incoherent dreams

born of clouds
they fill the sky

dim the sun

deflate

then lie

sprawl their skinprints
grey as tar

'tis shadowings

that's all they are

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Marilyn

flyposted on walls allover Hollywood
for the pink Cadillac parade
of Marilyn Monroe's graven image

Biblical in platinum and gold

Come and get it
your portion of the victim
before the sacrifice is made

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Angel Footprints

Angel footprints in the snow
burned deep-spaced
as though

and reluctant drag-marks of his trailing wings

yet it was the take-off point
just a disturbance on the blanket white
that was somehow
just not apposite

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The Careless Light Of Day

In November
the careless light of day
sometimes
seems to be led astray

nevertheless

when unexpectedly
it brushes against

we're arrested by

there are no words to say
except that
we wouldn't have it any other way

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Dreaming

the way to get out of a dream
is to jump

so he opened the carriage-door
and to scream

he listened to the engine roar
and the rush of smoke and steam

then they saw him
flashing by
arms waving
learning to fly

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A God on a Quay

fresh from arresting the sun's mad plunge into the sea
Apollo from his plastic barstool on the quay
surveys the scorchmarks on his Vauxhall Astra car

and clink goes the ice in his drink
and a wink for the girl at the bar

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Kyoto

staring out of the sun
a yellow disc
in a window above a hairdressers' salon

their mouths form words
whose erratic flight
stains the spaces in between
in pastel shades

faces all anxious
at what the changing light has made

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Sheeptalk

there came out from the open Bible
in a corner of a field
all of the sheep

gave one triumphant bleat
their exodus complete

without them
the book had very much less to say
as a sheep without an udder
gone permanently astray

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Morning

above the pines
clouds heap-up against the sky
and the blue Peugeot and red Hyundai

before they join the traffic flow
tread lightly to the junction slow

and soon the feint impressions
that they've made
in the tarmacadam fade

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The marmalade cat

it was a sticky situation
'Orange or Lemon? '

the marmalade cat at hotel-reception
paused and flexed his claws

'It depends on my mood'

'It's what you are now'

'Lemon'

the young lady smiled

'Is that with or without peel? '

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