Bugle

  

always green

    always brown

and never brown

    and never green

green and never brown

    and never brown

always green

    always

 

 

 

The Ordinary Small Centaury

 

flowers open

    flowers shut

and shut

    and open

open and shut

    and shut

flowers open

 

 

of PLAGUE and FIRE #13 #2

 the fire of hell

   the fire of London

the fire of London will be of hell

   more dreadful the fire

a thousandfold

    will be a thousandfold more dreadful

more dreadful a thousandfold

   will be a thousandfold

the fire more dreadful

   of hell

will be of London

   the fire of London

the fire of hell

   the fire

 

 

The Bramble

  

the leaves and the leaves are dry

   are brambles and as dry

as well brambles

   green as

green as well

   as well green

as green

   brambles as well

dry as

   and brambles are dry

are the leaves and the leaves

 

the buds, leaves and the buds

   green while they are green

branches, leaves and branches

   while they are

   while they are

branches, leaves and branches

   green while they are green

the buds, leaves and the buds

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Tower of the Yellow Crane (after Mao)

 

blue haze, blue the river

or tortoise guard the river

and haze like a snake or tortoise guard rain and hills

like a snake

hills, rain, rain, hills

like a snake hills and rain

– or tortoise –

guard, like a snake, haze and the river

or tortoise guard the river

blue haze blue