North
Coast Recollections ends
“The
full Atlantic at September spring
Flooded
a final tide-mark up the sand,
And
ocean sank to silence under bells,
And
the next breaker was a lesser one
Then
lesser still. Atlantic, bells and birds
Were
layer on interchanging layers of sound.”
St.
Saviour’s, Aberdeen Park, Highbury, London, N. begins
“With
oh such peculiar branching and over-reaching of wire
Trolley-bus
standards pick their threads from the London sky
Diminishing
up the perspective, Highbury-bound retire
Threads
and buses and standards with plane trees volleying by
And,
more peculiar still, that ever-increasing spire
Bulges
over the housetops, polychromatic and high.”