29 (30)

his chant as song for a new house

1-2
your making me to be for mine
to call and heal for mastering
3-4
until all beasting sing to last
in body likewise to reminding night
5-6
from any weeping glad outwilling
in an instant sky deciding dawn
7-8
did tell in our abundance I
can never fall unless you fail
9-10
or mountaining withstand
aloud your name so finally
11-12
that making yours for mine to be
no call nor mastering to heal.

                                       (for Dylan McCabe)

17 (18)

his gratitude
1-4
in him such summering
so rock from torrent cup
uncrying salmon leap
5-8
to broker streaming heart
relipped and summon fin
to sea or ember thumb
9-12
its sulphur taste devour
as ether shadowing
abandonment for hail

13-16
abandonment for hail
so searing jet in sky
to trail as memory
17-20
its autumn blur beyond
reproach in southerly
cascading steward blue

21-24
could cleanliness for hands
secure such crediting
as trust once seen in eyes
25-28
yea cleanliness for hands
electing thighs doth
better word in equalling
29-32
unwalled as quiet flame
to charcoal whom from cloud
or whomlessness to winning
33-36
hour for feet as shy
as deer or wintry arms
to warring discipline

37-40
pursue then overtaking
blame as enemy
until in need I fall
41-44
without a cry consume
the dirt unknowing and outstreeted
yet deserving
45-48
contradiction less
than any starving child
or migrant being made
49-50
to halt by monarch state
with promises for seed.

20 (21)

his chant as benefit for crown
1-2
desire or strength you gave as lips 
for joying not withheld      within
3-7
such precious stones upon his head
as days or face to sweeten hope unsafe
so beauty
8-13
making all the difference
will even wrath from oven fire.
                          

19 (20)

his chant as benefit or wish
1-3
to hear in time or tears whose name
would bear in mind your burning
such that giving fatly shield    within
4-6
as giving what advice the heart
will choir with proper noun
for plea or suit alone to king
7-9
predicted then but now to hand
our rise more heavenly than chariot
or horse unbounding grave to crown.

49 (50)

as rechant
1-2
dawn to set
stage unveil
3-4
blue will blaze
summon glow
5-6
slow to shape
discerning host   within

7-8
ear to attend
holocaust to end
9-10
spare me your feast
of male sacrifice
11-12
hunger for ashes
never mine
13-14
why mouth your thirst
suffice to praise
15-16
our privacy shine
till I unearth   within

17-18 
our day no shame
nor sham to forget
19-20
no brother to blame
in unmothered tongue
21-23
our silence no wrong
but flaming to save
reterming prove.

2

his chant
1-3
strut and pageantry the rule
promises that pass for news
4-6
blazing to make light of fools
dignity but mine to burn
peak to rank as guide discern
7-9
born today to ask the earth
shepherd iron to shatter myth
10-13
earthenware to pasture wise
trembling lips to kiss the blaze.

3

his chant when face fled
1-2
a gathering crowd
taunts my trust    within
3
your shielding heart
lifting my head
4
my heaving heard
even to heaven   within
5
lay down lulled
accepted to wake
6-7
number matterless
error toothless
8
one safe in praise
suffices a people  within

                             

7

his chant to the Eternal for comfort
1-2
whose first choice yours
to last quieter than lion
3-4
else his price mine
to feel heavier than void
5
then evening to heel disgrace
case closed quit chase    within
6-7
raze band court bound
to tend but firmer sphere
8-9
deem fair praise bare
to prize innocent as loin
10
there eternity of touch
such heart safe bond
11-12
time his strength bet
to ripen weaponless as threat
13-14
tire debt snare scent
to share sorrowing till fruit
15-16
drop seed pit own
to rot or equalling to root
17
so tree mere crown
to wing blamelessly in foot.

8

as benefit his chant expressing wine
1
whose milky way pronounless
an earthier touch 
than stunning night or breath-
2
-taking telling shade as lips
foretell winning nipple
sating more than infant to disarm
3
or finger revelling as eye
surpassing sphere
descending thigh distil as path
4
to countenance but where
am I panning bonobo to bonze
and whom to bother with when span
5
screen dismounting light as messenger
clocked in to bronze
untasked as cleftless cherubim
6
or why discharge so many worlds
for hands to mere as own till
margin clipping metered foot
7
so grazing herd or woodland squared
even armless forest fewering feet
defile with industry
8
unbird the air unfish the seas
subjecting ocean heating freeze
deface as wreathe forget to breathe.

4

as benefit his chant in pairs
1
your name my flare
to widen quiet 
2
when fatherless heart
favours fiction
3
my voice to reach
model ear
4
on pillow lull
blaze to blush
5
bidding best
twinned to enjoy  within
6
circles signed
eyes to anoint
7
as bread and wine
double sleep
8
liken slumber
winning face
9
so will trio
colour single shape.

6

as benefit his chant in pairs
1
highest penalty your frown
discipline disowning dream
your toll my doom
2
double audit thirst alone
strain to deprecate as lamb
our pact my tomb
3
lower profile fret to bone
ransom hunger glare to gaze
my balm your lull
4
raising head lending eyes
to twin unhealing wounds confide
till are be bloom
5
I unneeded fire address
who in death will you confess
twice more thrice less
6
labour night as bed to scale
litany of tears unvoice
your tide my pail
7
arrogance to pierce or alm
fierceness aging eyed as groom
or shroud your veil
8
flown as whirlwind trust in air
frail as supplication blind
all blame to pair 
9 
sown in silent space to fare
lightest indignation dare
my plea your ear
10
faster shame in shorter line
triple kyrielle remind
your most my least.

5

as benefit his chant to be hers
1-2
ear to my voice
pitch my address
3-4
my morning yours
our wills equal
5-6
no palace loud
as public fiction
7-8
no pillars temple
your open house
9-10
inequity nor malice
to hovel crown
11-12
but confiding tone
quiet as shield.

54 (55)

as benefit in pairs his understanding
1-4
confides grief to tend tide
when task hurt nameless
or half word would bid mask
decry heart faceless
5-8
inveigh fret unfit breast
to dove dark restless
would wing wild within

surprise storm to size 

bide weightless

9-10
unlike tongue as fame wall
will hide hire termless
11-14
expect street to coin love
and grind gain mindless
yet least mate whose eyes hint
assent stained timeless

15-18
let will thin in pile dwell
while cry guide reignless
unsphered voice dictates light
distils band bondless
19-20
outstrips prayer within 

reviews tribe remote

hand pactless

21-22
would mute glare and lips near
unwave care halfless
23

till pit ruse would bleed balm
outlived dare fateless.

13 (14)

son chant en agrément
1-4
à terme quelque part brisé
le cœur sans ciel ajourne
5-7
pain et lumière
et fulgurance à même.

9-10

as benefit his chant unfolding innest child

1-4 
tells all weakest shown
lightest verdict seatest song 

5-8 

faced tribe as noise blot

altered individual wrong 

9-12 
sheltered time as debt 
honoured in bare feet
13-16 
loyal frame to crave 
future plot as triable    within

17-20 
slightest trace best faint
memory least gate 
patience past appointed night    interlude

21-32 
quiz why blaze remote
beadest prize advising pain
can quote excuse heart
might pen acquit hurt
slant mere easing generate  
hyphens dream hug draws 
lion secrets hung to disendow  
thee thine nailing hand to beam

33-38
thou then samest sorrows sea 
shoulder pang as orphan sands
limb to liftest parent wave 
loftest break on poorest hear
yes to pour with pail and spade 
humblest grain to castle herd.

13 (14)

as benefit his chant
1-4 
something broke 
skyless heart to counter 
5-7 
bread and light
breaking one same day.

10 (11)

son chant en agrément
1-3
froid intime ci-mien comme confidence ultime
drapant ma porte ta petite cime passériforme
4-5
à hiberner mon seuil d'ici inassommable
tel colonne en berne aussi inapte ou impensable
que paupières inertes à œuvrer trompe-l’œil
6-7
en action pourtant à doubler coupe égale
bec pinte pluie appinsonnée au vent en aile
tel aux yeux tempête à l'ouest tassant rafale.

        (Hommage à Pádraig Mac Piarais 1879-1916)

12 (13)

as benefit his chant
1 
ever hunger for your face
miracle once seen that look
a first or last
2 
heart to profile ever weight
plans to scale regret the days
we spent or lost
3 
turn your head lift those eyes
all need to sleep all wish to die
not you nor I
4 
laughter when I made mistakes
faked afraid of being weak
no more no less
5 
demon doubt is even strength
then the dance will never slight
to fail in trust
6 
saving joy in this my wrong
lightly offer all this sung
in space to waste.

16 (17)

his murmur
1-4 

my lips to be sole judgement
on that night of scrutiny
5-8 
my limbs to underwing
your every tendency endow
9-12 
unstaring alibi than veil or prey

mere cub would stalk for secret fattening
13-15 
your criminal heart to bend
to mine alone in sobbing now
yet only I to face nor mortify when
that will do.

14 (15)

his chant
1-2 
within your tent (out of reach)
blood warm pillows east and west
(beyond glass shame) unswerving
3-4 
sheets to stud so gleaming trees
(in unison) fain mead for
brine or mane (for oratory)
5 
wouldst cloak in bluest honour
hither now (whose servant) wilt
on bribeless moment shy (oath).

15 (16)

his script
1-4
on call my guard within
each breath to shelter more than one
such majesty of monk
enchanting might doth hurry blood
5-8
yet nameless lipped in sleep shall lean
due share as well the cards accord

correctively serene
to flank the thigh of night
9-10
right-handedly all serenade
perpetual as dread.