Ken Smith Poems
- 1. Duck At Haldon Ponds
At evening watches the duck
slow feeding the waterline.
Praises the duck. Such a fine
... - 2. In The Next Street
thereâ??s only ever one argument: his,
bawling out whoever punctuates
the brief intervals his cussing
| interrupts, something unheard, reason perhaps.
... - 3. Encounter At St. Martin's
I tell a wanderer's tale, the same
I began long ago, a boy in a barn,
I am always lost in it. THe place
is always strange to me. In my pocket
... - 4. The Window Of Vulnerability
Sure today it could come in a fast plane
named perhaps for the pilot's mother,
the city ends in a smear in the road
and that in a child's shoe. No one
... - 5. Train
After Max Ernst's 'Europe after the Rain'
In the dark
each sits alone
... - 6. Possessions
They spent my life plotting against me.
With nothing to do but cultivate themselves,
but to be there, aligning their shadows,
they were planning to undo me,
... - 7. The Secret Police
They are listening in the wires,
in the walls, under the eaves
in the wings of house martins,
in the ears of old women,
... - 8. The Shadow Of God
To Mohács
in the marshlands, still in the pouring rain,
August 29th, 1526, where those summoned
and hastily gathered died in thousands
... - 9. Fast Forward
one thing then another
one story then another conversation
always interrupted by another conversation
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