singular

pre war baubles  home made from bottle tops  candles  incense

 tree reflections  morning eyes  pillow case  tangerine pungency  damask cloth

bun loaf  too generous for tin  pies pudding reeking rum  offering maiden aunt

wish bone breast  please yourself  wouldn't give  satisfaction  annual litany

Poll's Dad's dead  buried last week  we giggled  just as well  Grandma Auntie

Ursula wasn't aunt  even after they were dead  that's how it was holly

mistletoe  nobody to kiss  always hard winter

grass runway  procession to basilica  boy wore uniform  very small piss

architect suicide  did it make a mess  eighty years old  age  mossy habit  took

away passport  not welcome here  wore scout uniform  went into hiding   child

of resistance  man still wept  weeds in camp  hide all evidence keep their

 peace  who else talks  Coronation Day drunk  locked in classroom  Mother

Patricia in

chapel  say one for me  mussels in a restaurant  chips with mayonnaise

rucksacks on our backs

jungle tongue  consume  crumple iron  terracotta scared earth  woodpile

rattlesnake  balm of eucalyptus  lingers  woodworm eat my bed  Madonna

and Child  on charred sticks  chicken entrails  hummingbirds violet capped  fastest

growing  meningitis  unregistered  don't exist  can not die  spiders on bamboo

scaffold  vertiginous skyscrapers  collapsed regulations  tree warm oranges

juice trickle  sun skin  warm wine  prison pale priest  silent spectator  militario

wing skim washing line  Star over water  Sung emperors terrace  magic

carpets  dancing dragon  jade gods  ancient ivory  antique factory  night

market  Master eats chops  Victoria head in clouds  lotus blossom  ten

thousand Buddhas  green tea  the bull and bear  monkey's brain  baby mice

twitter of sparrows  ginseng  powdered lizards  ladder street  lucky lacquer red

Hakka woman's hat  sorting oyster shells  water buffalo  mandarin duck farm

roof top racing  don't lose face

what about a sleeping kitten  under peonies in bloom  I would have nothing to

do with it  barbarian crosses Emperor's bridge  sun shine through

cryptomerias  three wise monkeys cherry tree blossom  rose lustred pearls

stone lanterns  too heavy  tender shoots  herald  green mould  verdigris

decay  follow endless round  wooden birds  warble bubble note  another door

 swung in my face  I'll  cedar wood  paper walled tranquillity  linger at evening

 gate post-modern

ancient Noh

pyramids in thin air  steep steps four sides  crown of thorn cactus

 earthquaked high-rise  sun stone and protest  in Plaza de Armas  plumed

 serpent  tooth and claw  clay mask life and death  fire god flaming  arrow dive

 coral reef  petrol pump  car wreck  don't break down  wind up a goat track

 wheel over abyss  silver mine  flame lance  molten metal  beat and chase

 mediaeval craftsmen  merchants close to city walls  temple citadel

 smiling jaguar

banishment  battle wounded  longboats  grace of Edelfrida  feed on labskaus

 at a thing discussion battle  round a wall  silver ingot  runic carving  hogs back

gravestone  three broken crosses  Thor hammer  sacrifice sun  strikes fire

because she died