Poetry Archives

I

The sun is burning a hole in your pocket
and though very slowly you are making
the tides turn it is a sunny day
and everything burns
today goes very fast
you might make it rain
or intuit another bearing the mark of Cain
you see lips and a weeping black rose
in each of the god’s eyes
no matter
it is a day of aces and dancing dogs

II

Kafka was still a puppy when a car
hit him and broke his leg it was the best
thing that could have happened ever since he
is extremely careful on the roads &
would prefer to cross at the lights
or pedestrian crossings

III

as we have seen life can be quite harrowing
even for a young dog who, once over
the traumas of worms & house-training, would
be expected to lead an idyllic dog’s life
dogs all speak the one language & therefore
have no need to learn French

IV

How many times do
the words ‘dog’, ‘chien’, ‘canis’
or ‘hund’ occur in an average poem?

V

How long do you think it will take
before people will be reading poems
rather than newspapers?

VI

The artist’s  lot: to flounce about the countryside

VII

Like a dog.