When it Works it feels like play
Ramsay Head Press, 1998
Index
All poems as PDF
THE SHEPHERD OF REMEDELLO
WOUNDROUS CHILD, WOUNDED CHILD
LEGOHEAD
METAPHYSICS
EXTREMITIES
MEDITATION
THE LIGHTEST SNOW
THE REAL THING
BLAKE'S WIFE
VERMEER
NATURE AND ART
CONCEPTION I
CONCEPTION II
CONCEPTION III
CONCEPTION IV
MAIDEN AUNTS
TANTUS LABOR NON SIT CASUS
(LET SUCH LABOUR NOT BE USELESS)
THE UNQUIET POEM
ICY SWIMMERS
AT SCHOOL
RUSSIAN DOLL
THIS IS MY BODY
HONEY
THE NIGHT-WALKING
THE CRY
'THE SOUL IS NOT IN THE BODY BUT THE BODY IS IN THE SOUL'
TRAINS PASS BY MY WINDOW
BY NIGHT
THE PASSENGER
TWO HALVES
COUNTING
IN PRAISE OF LIBRARIES
SCOTTISH EDUCATION
RIVER
KINGFISHER
LIGHT AND SOUL
TO NORMAN MACCAIG FOR HIS BIRTHDAY, 1995
ROUNDABOUT TREE
THE POET AS WOMAN
TRADITION
THREE TREES
RONDEL FOR THE YEW
RELATIVELY SPEAKING
WAITING
VOX HUMANA
LE GRAND COLLIER ARGENT�
IN KEEPING
ELEGY IN AUTUMN
WATER AND FIRE
ISLAND COMPASS
THE BONES OF COLUMBA
CROFT
THE CLEARANCES RECOLLECTED
LASS O' PAIRTS
ETHIOPIA
PRAISE POEM FOR THE BORDERS
CRY FOR HELP
THE BOOK REDISCOVERED IN THE FUTURE
CHAOS RULES
A POEM FOR JEAN
MALE AND FEMALE
FEATHERED HATS
DUCKS AND BRICKS
BLACK SEAS
THE ALUMBRADOS
THE PAGE-TURNER
SONG
A SCENE FOR YOURSELF
YOUNG MEN AND OLDER CARS
A STABLE RELATIONSHIP
TRUE STORY
SACRED CITY
ON EARTH AS IN HEAVEN