Alphabetical index: VERSES

    A

  1. a bezant, rampant
  2. a memory
  3. a perturbation
  4. a planet circumcised
  5. a strand of moon
  6. ablaze
  7. abstracted
  8. adagio
  9. adrift and alone
  10. alluvial delta
  11. ambiguous and desolate
  12. and black bulls buffeting
  13. and crickets droning
  14. and falls
  15. and hangs it
  16. and red
  17. androgynous
  18. apotheosis of white
  19. appalled to be living
  20. ardent and seductive
  21. arisen
  22. around icy nipples
  23. aroused
  24. astonished eye
  25. astral gallop
  26. at a venture
  27. at daybreak
  28. at dusk
  29. August
  30. away
  31. azure


    32. B

  32. bare and blue
  33. battered windmills
  34. beach weaving
  35. beating raindrops
  36. beneath the stars
  37. beneath the sun
  38. benign measles
  39. bewildering transition
  40. beyond borders
  41. body with body
  42. breaking
  43. breaking wave
  44. brief epitaph from another time
  45. brightness
  46. brushing the light and the water
  47. burning ice
  48. by beaks
  49. by night


    50. C

  50. canon
  51. carrion
  52. cascading
  53. ceaseless evolution
  54. ceaselessly scanning
  55. celestial light
  56. circling
  57. clear bright blues
  58. clinging enchantment in the half-lit room
  59. clouds
  60. cockcrow rings out
  61. columns
  62. come into flower
  63. conquered crumble
  64. consumption
  65. contagion
  66. cosmic intercolumniation
  67. coveys
  68. crepuscular
  69. cresting the dawn
  70. crossing country
  71. crossing landscapes
  72. crows
  73. crystal
  74. crystal pain
  75. crystalline ritual


    76. D

  76. death with its vast night
  77. desire
  78. diaphanous
  79. disarray
  80. dishevelled
  81. dissolve
  82. dissolving amid plankton
  83. dizziness
  84. draining the dregs of the night
  85. drowsing
  86. drunkenly
  87. dunes


    88. E

  88. eastern courtesan
  89. eaten by worms
  90. emerge
  91. emission
  92. emptiness
  93. empty
  94. empty cloisters
  95. erection of the sun
  96. evening
  97. ever and anon
  98. everywhere coffins
  99. expanding
  100. extinguishes tiny fireflies
  101. eyelashes of death
  102. eyelid


    103. F

  103. faint films of cirrus
  104. faints
  105. February
  106. fields of lances
  107. fixed on eternity
  108. flashing
  109. fleeting
  110. fleeting shadows
  111. flowing
  112. foretaste
  113. forging furrows in the ocean
  114. fragile foretaste
  115. freezing
  116. freezing flame
  117. fresh and green
  118. from all
  119. from pebble to tile /to twig /flitting
  120. fullness


    121. G

  121. galaxy
  122. garden
  123. gentle spirit, wandering soul
  124. giddily circling
  125. girdle of the night
  126. glassy breeze
  127. glow-worms
  128. gnawed by lichen
  129. God
  130. gondola
  131. gracefully wavering
  132. grey
  133. guest and companion of this flesh


    134. H

  134. heaven’s heights
  135. heavy
  136. history
  137. hoary


    138. I

  138. icy
  139. imperturbable
  140. in a distant evanescent turquoise
  141. in a limitless time
  142. in a long winter … without end
  143. in fields of wheat
  144. in flower
  145. in fragile
  146. in frosty
  147. in stone walls
  148. in the beech trembling
  149. in the depths of the sky
  150. in the dwindling sky
  151. in the earth’s steady breathing
  152. in the green meadow
  153. in the night
  154. in which nothingness
  155. in which to flee
  156. inert shore
  157. infinite
  158. innocent poppies
  159. intervals of land
  160. invading
  161. invading
  162. iridescent
  163. irreducible
  164. irrefutable
  165. itinerant


    166. J

  166.  jubilant jig
  167. juddering


    168. K

  168.  kisses


    169. L

  169. ladybirds
  170. leaves that are swaying
  171. leisurely yawn and languid lethargy
  172. light
  173. light and dark
  174. like a boundless sea
  175. like a watery morning mist
  176. like diving-suits
  177. like petals opening
  178. lips
  179. lithe and lissom
  180. liturgy of light
  181. live out the day
  182. lost in the dusk


    183. M

  183. made of water salt and spume
  184. make
  185. May
  186. meadows
  187. meekly gleaming
  188. milky way
  189. mineral
  190. mineral muteness
  191. minimal poem
  192. mirror
  193. moon-faced
  194. morning
  195. morning
  196. morning
  197. murmuring faintly


    198. N

  198. naked thrust
  199. nakedness disclosed
  200. neat and new
  201. nocturnal
  202. November
  203. nuances of colour
  204. ocean of pure


    205. O

  205. of a body as still as a summer sea
  206. of bodily effusions
  207. of chariots
  208. of cotton-wool
  209. of dawn
  210. of fossilised sphinx
  211. of fruit
  212. of gold
  213. of harsh lands
  214. of heaven
  215. of incidence
  216. of night
  217. of night
  218. of salt
  219. of small specks of dust
  220. of the gods
  221. of the heavens
  222. of the sea
  223. of the sky
  224. of the sky
  225. of the unfenced horizon
  226. of waves
  227. on blades of grass
  228. on flowering almonds
  229. on frosty grass
  230. on the horizon
  231. on the twigs
  232. on the weather-beaten ridge
  233. out of the mist
  234. over
  235. over the edge
  236. over the sand
  237. over the trembling earth


    238. P

  238. pacing
  239. partitioning
  240. passers-by
  241. pearly dawn
  242. peremptory mirage
  243. perfuming the air
  244. petals falling
  245. poised to swallow them
  246. polished point
  247. poplar
  248. porously
  249. predominance of water
  250. prism of mud
  251. pure inanity
  252. purple


    253. R

  253. rainbow
  254. ravaged ruins
  255. raw salt /bare flower /of snow
  256. red periplus
  257. relaxed calm nurturing
  258. renewal
  259. rhythmical
  260. riding up over the horizon
  261. ringed
  262. rings out
  263. ripened seas
  264. rising to the surface
  265. riverway
  266. roads lined with trees
  267. rows of cypresses


    268. S

  268. Saturn
  269. scaling the terraces
  270. scanning the horizon
  271. sea and sky blend towards dusk
  272. sealing
  273. severed helms
  274. shadows
  275. shooting star
  276. shore
  277. silken dusk
  278. silky
  279. silver loom
  280. sip
  281. sky
  282. sleepless
  283. sleepwalkers swarming
  284. sleighs disappearing
  285. smoke and ash
  286. sodden soil
  287. solemn
  288. sparrow
  289. sparrows
  290. spiralling up
  291. spitting and spewing water
  292. stained-glass
  293. steadily
  294. steady rain
  295. still bristling
  296. stooping stems
  297. strangers straying
  298. straying
  299. sublunary icebergs adrift
  300. sudden gusts of wind
  301. sun on the steppe
  302. supreme
  303. suspended
  304. swallowed up by gleaming swirls
  305. swinging
  306. symphony


    307. T

  307. tapering tip
  308. temporal dissolution
  309. tender
  310. territory
  311. that dies
  312. the archer of dawn draws tight
  313. the breeze rocks
  314. the darkness
  315. the dawn appears
  316. the earth enchants the sky
  317. the far shore emerges
  318. the Great Sphinx of Gizeh
  319. the louring sky cracks
  320. the ocean gnaws
  321. the ruts
  322. the sea breathes
  323. the setting sun
  324. the sun slips
  325. the waves
  326. the world’s absent crown
  327. threshold of the abyss
  328. through fields
  329. tiny bodies
  330. to the very end
  331. towering crests
  332. tumult in mutation


    333. U

  333.  unbridled
  334. unconquered continents
  335. untouched /uncharted /exquisite world
  336. uphill they advance
  337. utter immensity
  338. utter silence


    339. V

  339. vaginal night
  340. vanishing into the void
  341. vanishing perspectives
  342. vast vacancy
  343. virgin
  344. vitreous tears


    345. W

  345.  washes
  346. watery eye
  347. waves
  348. waves of wheat
  349. weaving wisps of water
  350. weeping well
  351. weightlessness
  352. wheat-ears and poppies
  353. where will you find a lodging now?
  354. whirling round in the light
  355. white butterflies
  356. white princess of the night
  357. white sails and shadows of wings
  358. wild whirring of wings
  359. willow weeping
  360. window
  361. with a cloudless sky
  362. with a silver button
  363. with bewildered eyes
  364. with crosses erect
  365. with mane
  366. with the first frost


    367. Y

  367.  yielding