December has frozen its double-edged breath

and blows it down from the icy heavens,  

like a dry fire coming apart in threads,  

like a huge ruin that topples on…Read more…

All you who are awake in the dark of the night,

all you companions of the one lit window

in the knuckled-down row of sleeping houses,

all you who think nothing of the midnight hour

but by…Read more…

The dejected men,

the lone voices,

slip away

in this seaside rain.

Their words shudder to a standstill

in dismal corners.

Frightened to shout,

they cower

behind quivering faces.

No one…Read more…

You tell us

It looks bad for our cause.

The darkness gets deeper. The powers get less.

Now, after we worked for so many years

We are in a more difficult position than at the start.

But the enemy…Read more…

Huge expressive violins

in symphonies of meat and work

and struggle

on the farm

or in the factory

made for the record player

to spin in sin

against tobacco smoke

perfuming night

while…Read more…

When she entered

And set down her empty bags on my tabletops

I felt caught out in my

Missed deeds.

The evening news dripped bloodily from the screen

And the bed stood encircled

Aside in the…Read more…

wake up in the morning

head out to look

for work

stand in the corner of

the street

waiting for cars passing by

to pick you up

and take you to veg

gardens

as a day labor,

I am that forgiven…Read more…

Ye were hyne awa fae Nuremberg o the flags,

the death-crap o the purges; Il Duce’s

black-sarked legions heistin eagles…

Woolie’s guns and gairden canes airmed oor wars

focht on your cassies, oor…Read more…