" title="Painted, spoken Raymond Friel
Dream Calendar
1.
Red neon burns
on brickwork: Tyres & Exhausts.
As if we didn’t know.
2.
The hunt’s livener
outside the Tontine.
A trail of port in the snow.
3.
A scarecrow’s been out
all night. This the revelation:
all flesh is grass.
4.
On April’s hillside
houses from the river
new-roofed like pagodas.
5.
In May’s milder light
old men, keeping an eye,
let bowls run off and play.
6.
As daylight drains
boys fling themselves from the pier:
now, in eternity.
7.
Fair Saturday night. Clyde Square.
A gap-toothed grin
is strung between the trees.
8.
Shoulders red in the sun.
White meat turned on the girdle
like Saint Blaise.
9.
Rows of rotting timbers
wading in, but summer’s fleet
has slipped anchor.
10.
Regulars snug with pints
rolling their own
metaphysics. Marine Bar.
11.
Cartsburn Street. An orange sky.
The guy’s nodded off
in the inferno.
12.
The Royal at dusk:
souls on top of souls;
in the north, in hoc signo.
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