Cirrus Minor

In a churchyard by a river,Lazing in the haze of midday,Laughing in the grasses and the graze.Yellow bird, you are alone in singing and in flying on,In and in leaving. Willow weeping in the water,Waving to the river daughters,Swaying in the ripples and the reeds.On a trip to Cirrus Minor, saw a crater in the […]


Cirrus Minor

In a churchyard by a river,Lazing in the haze of midday,Laughing in the grasses and the graze.Yellow bird, you are alone in singing and in flying on,In and in leaving. Willow weeping in the water,Waving to the river daughters,Swaying in the ripples and the reeds.On a trip to Cirrus Minor, saw a crater in the […]


Summer '68

Would you like to something before you leave?Perhaps you’d care to state exactly how you feel.We say goodbye before we’ve said hello.I hardly even like you.I shouldn’t care at all.We met just six hours ago.The music was too loud.From your bed I came today and lost a bloody year.And I would like to know, how […]


Corporal Clegg

Corporal Clegg had a wooden legHe won it in the war, in 1944.Corporal Clegg had a medal tooIn orange, red, and blueHe found it in the zoo.Dear, dear were they really sad for me?Dear, dear will they really laugh at me?Mrs. Clegg, you must be proud of him.Mrs. Clegg, another drop of gin.Corporal Clegg umbrella […]


Grantchester Meadows

Icy wind of night, be gome.This is not your domain.In the sky a bird was heard to cry.Misty morning whisperings and gentle stirring soundsBelied a deathly silence that lay all around.Hear the lark and harken to the barking of the dog fox gone to ground.See the splashing of the kingfisher flashing to the water.And a […]


Brain Damage

The lunatic is on the grassThe lunatic is on the grassRemembering games and daisy chains and laughsGot to keep the loonies on the pathThe lunatic is in the hallThe lunatics are in my hallThe paper holds their folded faces to the floorAnd every day the paper boy brings moreAnd if the dam breaks open many […]


Lucifer Sam

Lucifer Sam, siam cat.Always sitting by your sideAlways by your side.That cat’s something I can’t explain.Ginger, ginger, Jennifer Gentle you’re a witch.You’re the left sideHe’s the right side.Oh, no!That cat’s something I can’t explain.Lucifer go to sea.Be a hip cat, be a ship’s cat.Somewhere, anywhere.That cat’s something I can’t explain.At night prowling sifting sand.Hiding around […]