Saturday 18 December 2010

Gerry Loose - Poems from 'fault line' (9)

XXXVIII

who cleans their ears
while sleeping
to hear dreaming


commentary:


fliuch some
old words naming
water avens
invocations to rain
also bring wetlands
red wells at the centre
sepal colour is of
beaten bodies

Friday 17 December 2010

Gerry Loose - Poems from 'fault line' (8)

XXXVII

Mr President jets off
to a far black country
urges the hungry
to consume
& be his friends
the way a landowner
is friends with his fence


commentary:


one of the banned
names
lus na fola
blood herb
shepherd’s purse

Thursday 16 December 2010

Gerry Loose - Poems from 'fault line' (7)

XXXVI

two ghettos dreaming
separated by wire
a dream at the front
a dream at the back which
buoys the world
the hinds the hinds
time perhaps to sing


commentary:


watch the flower rise
as it drinks
sit quietly
it happens
were you on the hill
by the lochan
of concealed soldiers
whisper this one herb
robert

Wednesday 15 December 2010

Gerry Loose - Poems from 'fault line' (6)

XXXV

a thrush is speaking
tarragon in the garden
it’s July 14th
a thrush is speaking all
are born and remain free
and equal in rights
it’d be good to be
smelling buddleia
when the time


commentary:


little sister
white bone
earth sap
I name it
hidden carefully
gun cache in green
delayed deferred
broken red straw
berry

Tuesday 14 December 2010

Gerry Loose - Poems from 'fault line' (5)

XXXIV

efficiently stealing
when I thought I was awake
I left the land music sleeping
throbbing & urgent on
the circular breath of
humans & other creatures
following those narrow paths
that are understood
to lead to the heartland


commentary:


water & whisky
& fishmothered garlic
the wood wild blades
chorus themselves

Monday 13 December 2010

Gerry Loose - Poems from 'fault line' (4)

XXXIII

they are not benign
black helicopters
have no ovipositors


commentary:


& the one for the bird
with two notes
cuckoo flower
oh my slender gun
my blinding sun

Sunday 12 December 2010

Gerry Loose - Poems from 'fault line' (3)

XXXII

before the torrents of rain
Bàgh mu Dheas
Bàgh mu Thuath
before the landslides
Rudha nan Sgarbh
Sgeir bhuidhe
leaving aside
the multitudes of frogs
the Hen-house
the Deer Shed
Maggie Baan’s Hole
Mecky’s Point
now silenced
a people of the sea
the sea


commentary:


the mast of the riverside
butterbur
named & folded back
& back into the hill
into missiles lodgings

Saturday 11 December 2010

Gerry Loose - Poems from 'fault line' (2)

XXXI


it can’t be said
of the President
he wouldn’t
hurt a fly


commentary:


a little spark
I eat & name
nettle

Friday 10 December 2010

Gerry Loose - Poems from 'fault line' (1)

XXX


try to write as if for a child try
to write as if
for a politician filching
wells & springs
from the people


commentary:


what boat
is inside the island
I’m calling coltsfoot
fire