Robert Yates
London
The poems in this issue were taken from his book
Appendices to Life
Haiku
the rainscape is so
fragile it would collapse
if brushed by a word
On An Unwritten Novel
It scares me more than failure
It scares me more than bees and wasps,
dentists, loneliness, cities, God
it scares me like the dead time
the unpronounceable myth
Mychaela, Pavis, anarchies of peace
It scares me like a dream
It scares me like the powerless ones
a guillotined voice
It scares me more than science,
Feminism, Thatcherism, modernism
It scares me more than The Guardian
It scares me more than The Thirty Years War
Samuel Beckett, Adolf Hitler, Chris Evans
It scares me like a screaming child
an oncoming haemorrhage
1985,
It scares me more than Scousers
It scares me like a word.
Appendices to Life
those wires through the sky
don’t cut it any more
you can only put up with
so little
I have nothing to add.
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