Burgh House Library
The Cello was loud,
too loud in The Music Room.
She, Party arranged.
March 1st
After Harmonium 1923
The lilacs wither
in the Carolinas. French
gave the flowering.
March 2nd
Time To Avoid for MK
A distant music
at the end of street, the void
after much static.
6 am March 3rd
Cement Morning for a sculptor
Whether loved or loathed,
ignored, you have done the work
in any event.
Noon March 3rd
Famous Five
The end of beastly
roads and things we do not like :
the devil may strike.
Famous Five (2)
Lashings of ginger
beer ! for deep heat on the Downs,
and an end to frowns.
March 7th
Storm Comfort
Cider, sipped a week
or two, with water biscuit.
Gentleman's Relish
House Party Sleepover
Sleek Henrietta
had a vivid tongue, nipple-
pointing repartee.
March 8th
Cobra Spoof (Moldova)
Did you say ruddy ?
No, I think he said muddy.
NOT FAR FROM CYPRUS
March 9th
Over Terracotta
Leaves in, damaged roof
and not, for Mariana
in the moated grange
Lauds In Storm
You hear a storm rage,
to wind shrieking the Gothic
roof, a door creaking.
March 13th
Elevenses (2) for Helen
Sea upheaval, rich
cloud, a scanning variant
for the reckoning.
Tempus Fugit after Hoeg
Shallow then deep time
can perplex, to a belling
clock signifier.
Libertate for Helen (again)
Art, the challenger
can be teacher of a way
up-ending the day.
March 15th
Bloom Burst for Alison
In March, laburnum
blooming sears by the Fenton
old Tennis Court lawn.
March 19th
Dino-roar, The Word
Dinosaurs did roam
yet, flared, they went. Adam, Eve,
text ; Latin grammar.
Bravo a Go Go
Do they still worry
about Moldova, peering
green-lit, in Cobra ?
Still Life
Your milk jugs, Cezanne
with round, prominent apples
painted heroic.
March 21st
Lunch In Switzerland (WWII)
Adml. Canaris,
MI6 : ally Ukraine
to defeat Stalin. in Zurich
Flight (Or)
Again, the trains west
with pets and little luggage.
Fleeing from terror.
March 21st
The War
Fought, and finally
won, in The Country Houses
of Old Albion.
Aftermath (2) Haiku
In a vernal month
the flowering allotment,
a third backfire.
The Dilemma
A conditional
surrender of Germany :
Gestapo, o.k !
March 24th
Red Grave Error
His major mistake :
Stalin buried the Marshall
Plan, for lost Poland.
Loyalty, Comrade for Alison
Vodka, the Volga
and all that drinking, ablaze
on the Party raft.
Chrome Plated
Henrietta, bathed
did so love her Lempicka.
She craved, in liquor.
Gotterdammerung
Why did Hindenburg
bring Hitler in ? Fur Preussen ?
To retake a Line.
March 25th
Jeddah Scotland
Crack. The Anti-Christ
mouth of doom spat to prevent
Mary, the bagpipe.
March 29th
Where Is India ?
Indo-Pacific
trading bloc a Thames Gateway
now ; would you believe !
March 30th
Code Book Corrector
During The Battle
Of The Atlantic, Joan drank
Destroyer cocktail.
Passing The Port
In Burgh House, gathered
we celebrate. Agitate ;
honour Ulysses. by Tennyson
March 31st finito
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