from For the Fallen
56
o winter and mead thirst in aether gaining
clue rig Orion, news going late letting
come clueless O least in view
rag Catterick holds faith and clue
on gorse muddy fog flower dew
o drew chant naming in anger the few
57
O wine faith and moth faith is grace-sent
wire in rest molest a nest thick went
glow dull and droll and befeathered
going amidst a maul or muck scent
on gorse my dog-hard life and falling
or rue it at college in wired garage
o dry chant reality's grey sound at Catterick
true naming one wire and not cursing
58
who bid the young highwire in parent
made peel awry he
who'd bid thy own ivy a tree
who'd among old or thin
win a maiden hiding
in highstrung history
and Tom Caddel in catcher flights
marching on trust in moors
59
anger dour dane
sharp stuff we grin
send a worm again
in lean budding
Arthur in all
drew sad dresser
sent away war
in this cadaver
inlaws wear none
isle in thick gnaw
newsdesk true and far
led in the dark
O drydock drink
see where youth wears fire withered
60
anger doing down
any scoffing
in mean bidding
lead roof lowerer
in marsh of wire
rag of cotton
wrecking of Arthur
of worrying bath
Cymric tarred hearth
a rage of Merlin
61
anger dire dawn
serves saffron green
engage in vain
inlaid budding
arial railway
trace track chimeways
in rue coppery
cordway laying
choir youth elsewhere the gyres withered
rector stair-hater more gobsmacked
tutor tracing air care of the lathe
62
clan for lead roof
claw gift aloof
wrong wreath in morning
crawler clothier
lawn feathered
tidal flight at blest seaman
loose art too close the
law in a lather
since no ideal's a bargain
see there youth always on highwire raised
rector tillerman moor pub flyer
tutor treading air care of the lyre
63
earthly deft songs coming caffeine
in sad ear at Catterick rapidly breaking
brother a year wiser sung
sung it with a wind
Dial M for Murder
O gallant befringed
this drawl kid nowhere a cuff wrecked
coffee coming here to a craft so dared
64
ah the dog gone no common offering
torn tan and thunder a rivering
gored Arthur might marching musty
rough fettle ruffle on either knee
gore going the different dining car
or main lad in the sky
I whisked awry wrist with a hard folly way
made wine glow and wide lustre
a wheel I am fed O daily
winefed of wide North son so dearly
65
earthly songs clear or certain
a chime defiant delays Orion
rife scent I lifted pen or ink clued
in anger glory birds a-living
an arles for many dogs marching mean
of deeds we do our way by the gallon
at Catterick a fresh new door lacking
way they went clothed in sea fog iron
or else a tremor treads galleon
oath I did amongst the bared Britons
Gododdin O bell welling not chiming
66
earthly songs with common refrains
loud lodger-bird by dizzy want
how many in hill bird idle amount
every great march a mead feathering
forgetting the airing when fainting
67
earthly dog songs clear on common
our negus morning fog mistress mine
a match for her dry wonder
old buffer whistling a land of the broken
68
no portent from mauled noise of
ragtime railway train authored
too big for truth truly kindled
Tuesday whistled in clothes dithered
Wednesday butchery is done
Thursday kindly outmoded
Friday calamity closed
Saturday differing yoked wethers
Sunday clans go red adrenal
Monday hide mine eyes wading waylaid
news draws Gododdin wed to the cluttered
rag pebble mad dog pain gored
naming a man O gallant not delayed
69
mock away wraith in moor
in gunnels at peripheral ragstone
by shores of the Wear
sing hinnies cold
avail of the guard
in degree
but cold hold a minute—but lay
but going a willing journey
70
mock away wraith in morning
pancreas in ruin in mourning
O drawers in houses undiluted
rag song of want guise thing
old gear of goon squad chews wading
malefic booze true—certain
old clue and cladding wears thin
leatherfull dual fighting
O most wretched
delayed escape stair
awful in morning
71
he fell headlong to depth
no delay who with wrenching pen
disgorged brain fuel lads a-going
cunning in rain a stair edger
eastwind kangaroo'd ghastly his going
dilute disdain carefully filling
disgorged pen viburnum bran
fetching march a worn search at each wide dawning
go for it go for gold against disdain
72
air draws a ruddy wiseapple
let gorse away with a fiddle
worth weird words and nervous
search away am I red in faith
singing a search—seeking a song
our fellows cleat daywise and cluttered
penitent enough in neckwear carved
hunt amber but go to penitence
73
faint and hard on the far gale
and his table is withered
darkly the mode melds a mangle
crisis arguing a league in war
sad loose English leaves a door
wry benefit hid in a guitar
ah wine cluer to achieve
go on and on with faith
safely care away the winners
tear away thin face fast strumming
canker west dear can go west wing
by orphans goddamned breed
74
my thin orthodoxy negates
my motley dog clawhammer
but does a choice on chordway
not odd of wrath gift coffered
muddying onions are we held
not odd are lights born or bothersome
angel where our china lived with
in high flown belaid her belied her a dimwit
godly Sir heron Cliff and law inactive
searching in ignorant highlands
water freshly by flame hard rag a scarp
75
the far fuel and growing
the lady and the hero
neither overheard nor strumming
neither earth fed nor drumming
nothing we rely on is held
not owed our keys upon the blue
not chilly waster train led to rue
draws to choose cleverer than you
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