Though perhaps death may share the blame -
I fail to accept logic, reason, sorrow as excuses;
...
Two day stubble and sombrero soil
under orange-tree sunsets,
the hanging drift of day's cache of light
Orito, Montforte;
...
So be it;
our sacrifice rubs its fingers up and
down Adam Schiff's shoulders,
a hunk of New York's finest porcelain -
...
Published in Ireland, the U.K., and the U.S.A.)
No-One Returns Borrowed Books, Ever
Though perhaps death may share the blame -
I fail to accept logic, reason, sorrow as excuses;
my Herman Melville, my Readers Digest Guide to Better Gardens,1972,
are these merely bystanders to a shard of sudden stroke that bites the
lives from a clutch of barbed-wire chests,
that flinch at the snap of slipping bone
on the shiny tiles of clickety-clack suburban homes - white wine everywhere?
No, I believe not.
I peer through the tortures of whipped-tight blinds,
of lights ashamed to be clothed in the scarlet sins of red,
I see my pile, and they see me, the bridge of death and darkness
ropeless in-between;
Jump I say, jump I tell them, perhaps they'll die too,
my curtain's love for glimpsed and clutched
street-lamp light
as wordless and un-edited as ever