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Sunset Swimming
The gloo, gullet, bottle / Of the bubbling sea / With its waves and the wind spreading out.
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My More Joyful Flying
your hands the trees / and my heart a small bird that sings / high up in the branches, high and sweet,
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The Timber Getters
At this deep pool / Where no light is reflected, / Where small birds come
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And These Men
And these men that made the land, / That wove their dreams with dust and dirt, / That needed death to know the flower,
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Thylacine
And the very last, the endling, / Caged in the sunlight at Beaumaris Zoo, / Tired of the poking and the prodding
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Blessed Love Of Mine
Blessed love of mine, / Blasted is the wind tonight, / Take me, Hold me,
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Mona Lisa
You cannot touch her, / Tread quietly, / As she overlooks you with her straightened jaw.
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Harbour-side
He sits with aging canvas bags / Draped around him on the windy quay / Where blown from busy parks he's come
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I Drive My Bus
I drive my bus / Full of grotty kids and lunatics / On the bitumen dream
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Siesta
the joyful indolence of a summer's day, / the siesta lull which wakes / to a slow pushbike ride,
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