Poems from Murray Alfredson
Two green eyes, white bands beneath lace wings:I'd love such beauty, except of course, he stings
Also city dwellers
Black ducks, deft dodgers,dart crumb-huntingin and outbetween umbrellas,tables, chairs,diner- and walker-legs, unfasedby...
Quickworded
I flensed quickwordedthe face of my brotherfull sore he flinchedthen soured against mehis loss bit deepalone I wilderedwield...
Twilight of the godsNo, we are the dunes;with flimsy crust,with grass and scrub,we hope to holdagainst the dry,the drift from shifting...