Study

On clear days, always 
Above my PC screen, 
The small square 

Window composed of dark
Green cypress boughs before 
A backdrop of cloudless sky-blue— 

On moonless starry nights,
Introspection shining through. 

Artiste

With greatest of ease 
Before high 

White sidewall, grey 
Brown sparrow 

Flittering on be 
Spattered pied 

Scaffolding. 

William Carlos Williams' Amulet

--for the children of Gaza, amongst so many others
 

Of the innocent 

image of the grand 
child who entered 
the new world naked, 

now sleeping in 
its grandmother’s frail 
arms, the good doctor 

would have made medicine 
strong enough to ward off evil 
unseeable and still have us 

keep an eye on it. 

Poetic Movements

Congested round the edges 
Of a stagnant pond, observe 

The lyre-like fronds 
Of ferns 

Behind which croaking 
Troubadours compose 

Watery, crepuscular songs. 

A Tom Clark Poem

Like a fleeting heart 
Beat that causes me to stop 
To catch my breath 

Wherever it was 
I was going.