Warm coffeeshop in the bookshop basement.
Early winter cosiness
before the advent of inflatable reindeer.
...
Carol-Anne Duffy: 'Poetry is the music of being human'
...
For the first time, this spring,
I wondered if I'd play again.
Had a pre-season net, thought:
It's really time to stop.
...
A day of such translucent calm
It was almost eerie.
The December sun unfeasibly hot
And suspended over field and dry-stone wall
...
Brought up on
Khakibos
With its skinny black seeds
That stick to socks and sweaters,
...
On the last day
Of a three-week stay in Tokyo
A boat trip along the river
Reveals the city skyline-
...
Not covering heads,
but down backs-
green, turquoise, red.
Different degrees.
...
Looking at the Elgin Marbles, cows being led to sacrifice,
reminds me of Keats.
And here it is-a plaque-
This frieze was the inspiration for Ode on a Grecian Urn-
...