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.