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  • Neptune Blue (Salt Modern Poets)
    Neptune Blue (Salt Modern Poets)
    by Simon Barraclough
  • Los Alamos Mon Amour (Salt Modern Poets)
    Los Alamos Mon Amour (Salt Modern Poets)
    by Simon Barraclough
  • Bonjour Tetris
    Bonjour Tetris
    by Simon Barraclough
  • Ask for It by Name
    Ask for It by Name
    by Simon Barraclough, Olivia Cole, Isobel Dixon, Luke Heeley, Liane Strauss, Roisin Tierney
  • Identity Parade: New British and Irish Poets (New British & Irish Poets)
    Identity Parade: New British and Irish Poets (New British & Irish Poets)
    by Roddy Lumsden
  • Adventures in Form: A Compendium of Poetic Forms, Rules & Constraints
    Adventures in Form: A Compendium of Poetic Forms, Rules & Constraints
    by Paul Muldoon, Iain Sinclair, Hannah Silva
  • Penguin's Poems for Love (Penguin Hardback Classics)
    Penguin's Poems for Love (Penguin Hardback Classics)
    Penguin Classics

Easter Saturday, Hyde Park

Winter's piggy-backing spring, squeezing ribs,

with icy thighs, scoring her pale haunches

with his whistling crop. Pigeons are downed

by rat-a-tat hail, sheltering their pates

as brittle as biscuit or Eucharist host,

dazed from the air turning grapeshot and grey.

 

It's at a loss, this apocryphal day:

parenthesised by murder and grace,

never knowing whether to storm or shine,

to pitch winter into The Serpentine

or let him beggar these bones to the ground,

and ride the year into the knacker's yard.

 

So I think I'll sit it out with Peter Pan

and see if Sunday wakes me as lost boy or man.

 

From Neptune Blue out now from Salt.