if you weren’t you, who would you like to be?

the moor changing like an animal/brown to green grey topurple with the weathersky blue at the edgeslike a letter that came too late .. . . Undine rising from the maters her golden hairdripping in the moonlight . . . dead bird on a fence blooddripping from its neck . . . Isis ,searching the…

Love is a fanclub with only two fansLove is walking holding paintstained handsLove is.Love is fish and chips on winter nightsLove is blankets full of strange delightsLove is when you don’t put out the lightLove isLove is the presents in Christmas shopsLove is when you’re feeling Top of the PopsLove is what happens when the…

I saw my stocking lying on the chairLooked right to the bottom but you weren’t therethere wasapplesorangeschocolates. .. . aftershavebut no you.So I went downstairs and the dinner was fineThere was pudding and turkey and lots of wineAnd I pulled those crackers with a laughing faceTill I saw there was no one in your placethere…

the scent of lilies in dark green silences under treesmilkweed and ragwort and sunshine in hedgessmall flowers picked amongst trees when it’s rainingA year agoYou planted lilies in the valley of my mindThere were lilies at the bottom of my gardenAnd ferrys at the bottom of my streetNowI sit here in sunlight with the smell…

I love you baby but you must understandThat feeling you’s fine and kissing you’s grandBut I wouldn’t leave my little wooden wife for youWater tastes fine but money tastes sweeterI’d rather have a fire than a paraffin heaterAndI wouldn’t change my little 8­roomed life for you.

Tonight at noonChildren from happy families will be sent to live in a homeElephants will tell each other human jokesAmerica will declare peace on RussiaWorld War I generals will sell poppies in the streets on November 11thThe first daffodils of autumn will appearWhen the leaves fall upwards to the treesTonight at noonPigeons will hunt cats…