The Terrible Crystal

The Terrible Crystal

Hearing Eye Press

Box 1, 99 Torriano Avenue
Kentish Town, London NW5 2RX UK

2008

32 pages, softcover

ISBN-10: 1-905082-39-8
ISBN-13: 978-1-905082-39-1

Available from:
Hearing Eye Press
the poet, for $6 or £3 (includes postage)

sample - AT A LONDON POETRY FESTIVAL

AT A LONDON POETRY FESTIVAL

Jacob’s Ladder: six-winged seraphim

scramble up the receding beam,

as cherubim tumble, po-faced, spent;

while underneath: angel ordinaries, content

to browse the falling feathers, gossip

over light motes — some looking up,

some never looking up,

until Tomas Tranströmer,

laureate, at the piano,

fingers the sarabande

written for his only good hand,

smiling mutely from his rolling chair

at the standing adoration tendered there.