Poems of Craig Raine

1. A Martian Sends A Postcard Home 1/13/2003
2. An Attempt At Jealousy 1/13/2003
3. City Gent 1/13/2003
4. Dandelions 1/13/2003
5. In Modern Dress 1/13/2003
6. In The Kalahari Desert 1/13/2003
7. Nature Study 1/13/2003
8. The Onion, Memory 1/13/2003

City Gent

On my desk, a set of labels
or a synopsis of leeks,
blanched by the sun
and trailing their roots

like a watering can.
Beyond and below,
diminished by distance,
a taxi shivers at the lights:

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