:: MIXES BRACKEN ::

tendons ∑ ∑ milk-pudding

like the roaring of wind in a wood

corsets of the purple frost under the ∏

with eyes so bright

warble tones tanners

a man lifted his head

(soap-bubbles ∫∫∫ caterpillar

hunted wolves in the night)

needles undulated over coral

(they) a long time are dead

toward the large ∆

flesh of his face as dried grass

down into a jig-saw puzzle

sad as a child without milk

arthritis or marble the brandy

i know how men sorrow & pass

(& i know how women sorrow)

medicament ∂ ∂ the medicament

eyes that glimmer like silk

∫∫∫ & ∑ pranced pranced the ‡

praying, & wroth with the bells

& shall not even appear like

a severed head on every ship

mixes bracken ≈ ≈ dwarfs

on a bridle-path of tongues

the secret rosary of the corncrake

wattles & woodwork made ◊ ◊ ◊

on the incline of a microscope

the sacred cairn & the rath

Þ & ∏ shall rub a plaster

with mattock & spade

blue thicket chalk chalk

wet with much action

from its image the buried ≠

unglorious, the ∫∫ stood

squares slop ellipses

one, caught in your net

)))))))

Séamas Cain