"Fancy Dress"
I dreamt of a fancy dress party
I’d thrown but then wanted to end.
I’d gone as myself, only older;
Nobody came as my friends.
"West Leeds Junction"
He swam in God-consciousness;
I tread water.
The smokescreen democracy;
The Aireside stacks –
Their Perspex oblongs
Blazing open-plan disuse;
The phosphorous burns;
The Catholic in my parting;
Arrest my strokes.
