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Back from London.
Now I am back from LondonEverything slows downThe quiet house seems like an abstract paintingWhere references to living ...
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A Wexford Church
Stones made this church in dismal lack of grace Dull windows. Leaden threads between the telling glass A ...
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Too Much Art
I’ve seen too much ...Too much is wearisome The scent is lost Art becomes a corset TightI’m boned ...
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To the Inspirations.
In my hot bathDevouring all that you ever wroteAll that you wereAs savagely as a starved fanged beastTears ...
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There’s Nothing to Erase.
As the sun comes up the landscape falls into perfect place...hill by hill.. and in the hillsthe ...
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The Suffering of Anne Sexton
Beneath some luminous-ity That pours down from above Both thru the moon and sun...Her lean long ...
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The Man Who Tried to Pin Down Art.
Greenwich Village. He now belonged to it.He walkedAt every corner that he turned ...
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The Lady’s Prayer....
Our Mother who art in Heaven Hallowed be thy nameThy Queendom comeThy love be done on earth as ...
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The Ginkgo Tree. Manhattan.
As nature opened up its dawn you cameBorn on the windIt took some hundred million yearsBut here ...
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The Ginkgo Trees : Manhattan
As nature opened up its dawn,, you cameBorn on the windIt took some hundred million years ...
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The Gingko Tree
At nature’s early dawn born on the wind you came.You grew: It took some hundred million yearsBut here ...
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The Gables (Rathgar. Dublin).
In the ruins of my once-great-mind (ha ha)That Inca Temple of my Andes..now sub-siding ..Some memories limp ...
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The Famous Shane McGowan
The place was Merrion Sq in Dublin CityThe day was summery and very bright The flowers sang ...
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A Dish from Him
The dish is beige on cremeIt has a pleasing hand made lookI see it every dayIt is ...
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The Death of Xyzllii !( a rhyme)
xyzllii is dead...Google took the axe to her andGoogle killed her off.Poor Zilly is ...
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The Day They Killed My House.
My mother was one .....my father another.The years pass.I haven’t seen them since .The link ...
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The Butterfly : A Tribute to Aaron Swartz.
Waking up from Childhood the young man looked around.He saw vast Alien Forests ...
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The Brown Bottle...to Dwight (Del )Long.
Dusting the brown bottle After all these years Brought me to think of youWearing a ...
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The Blind Art Collector(for Fran Lebowitz)
Writers have to know things...musicians don’t.A child of eight can write a symphony..but cannot write ...
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The Arch of Iris.
The garden wilderness a bastion of bending temperanceIs blown by angry tempests The outrage of the gusts ...
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That Vertical America.That vast.. that vertical America.. Wrapped rigid in Glass Towers The conquerers of air Live over bones of ...
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That Beast Impossible.
Man is that beast impossible...it seems we can not lay himDown to rest his waysThe drone just comes ...
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Susceptibility.
The misanthropic air is everywhereit comes at me my crying eyesinternal blocked up everythingare all effected by the stingReduced to ...
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Skype
She washed her hair and dried it into curlTook off the beauty mask and creamed her skin.Nails painted in the ...
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SHORT POEMS
I Walked In.
it was exactly as they all said it would beexactly as they all warned methey all said ...
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She Wolves (for Helen Castor)
Here lies the She Wolf howling stillHer silent headstone mossingIn the Withering Heights.Can you hear her ...
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Schumann in My Life.
A door that opens in and further in..some stairs... a lift that goes to high and higher ...
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Poor old Bertie!
I like to think (andthe sooner the better!)of a cybernetic meadowwhere mammals and computerslive together in mutuallyprogramming harmonylike ...
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Pearls Before Swine
What a great partyI thank you...so much loveI’m left with no time For those who count mostAbove this
I’m ...
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Park Bench...(Stephen’s Green).
...Dublin ..Park BenchSitting here dreary...Hard Bench ...Dewy wet bum rot benchCould seem like eternity stilled Possibly it is..
A ...
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On The Way to the Airport. A Memory.
On the way to the airport in your golden metal-ican car I gibbered ...