9 PM September 11th
Sinister people,
headlights, a car door thudding.
Who, with whom, where ?
At Lauds
I restored aura,
Our Lady of Great Victories
intoning Latin. Ave Marias
Dark Ages (Poland)
Maria Virgine
et incarnatus est, de
potestas Roman. Romanus (with farm tractors)
September 11th First draft in English, abandoned
'No 1 The Thames'
Martello Tower, Grain Battery Tower
late built the 1840s :
a cannon tower. off Isle of Grain
Inventing The Hour around c. 3000 BC
They started our time not Greenwich
Sumerian time, Iraq
base-60 calcul. system
Accident Proof
Drinking Assam tea found 'wild' in 1823
a malt sign of September
at four, with lemon.
September 12th
The Large Executives after Auden
Bristly ; over-paid,
go brunch-feasting, denying
the shareholder div. or, jam
September 13th
September Sad 1940
The Supermarine
Factory, of Southampton Woolston
bombed bad. Spitfire 5.30 pm + September 15th
Jingolistic
Jolly hockey sticks Roedean et al
DO rule, and playing the fool
ends you in a fix ! or, behind bricks
On September 14th
The light not so sharp,
in the Kentish Town City
Farm Kitchen Garden.
Age Of Anxiety after Auden
We have our zillions,
nearly, have our panic room :
fear a sonic boom.
Touche' Coupe' 1948-1971
Did Theresa May
coax her Morris Minor Sport ? tourer convertible
dark brown hair, breezy.
Proper Person, A
So reliable :
dry, the tweed skirt compliment.
Not known to fumble.
Prend Place
L'ete' indien
arrive : Logis Hotels, oui.
Voyagez Local
September 15th
The Wreckers' Ball for The Candies
Jerky, the loaded
cavort on cocaine, a spoon
and the green, lampoon. like The Middlesex
Net Zero Foul
The lithium charge, partly uninsurable
too expensive for the poor.
Buy a Renault 4 ! light on metal
On The Road or, Steam Punk
What envo. future ?
Pedal power, a truck steam
turbine ; wind, sail.
After Ben Judah journalist
Vers libre Haiku there is no such thing
are not viable. The State (TSE) For SA
rotten to the core.
September 16th
Le Grand Retour
To what ? one may ask.
To beaver : as the Uber
bask, Caribbean.
Impossible Haiku for Armitage ref Peri Bathous
The great returning
of stuck morning rush-hour pace Larkin
traffic : bathetic ! cf Martinus Scriblerus (1727)
September Sad Mal for Baudelaire
Septembre : un mois
de Haiku rationing, triste
dans les nuages gris.
Se'ance Fresco Question
Did Ralph, and Madchen Saschen
thrive in The Byzantium
Chapel, at St. Silas ?
September 18th
After Augustus 16 BC+
Caesars' Temple, Nimes restored
whitened : Le Maison Carre'e
looks other-worldly. paranormal, even
Vaulted, ou Voute' hat lost on u
'Temple de Diane'. Roman
En Jardins de la Fontaine,
autour du Nymphe'e. dat Nimes 1750
September 19th
After Auden as the Austrian
Summer gibbering
must end, as Autumn leaner,
with no girth for mirth.
Faux Pas
Arsenal, Macron ! -
un chemise de La Partie un petit cadeau
de Paysans, en Paris. de Starmer
September 20th
Illumination apres Rimbaud
Sunlight, Missing Cabins HG 2002
of Helen therein, no Troy in acrylics
to worry ardour.
Temptation
Get thee behind me,
Satan. I need no rotten
apple to chew on.
September 21st
Lampoon
The blue is colder,
in crow-defying heaven
and fox digs, older.
The Pantheon, Bath Houses
What did the Romans
do, that the Greeks did not do ? and Bridges
Engineer concrete. via hot mixing
Crew Of Seven in the 7,377 UK built
Each Lancaster lost, the Avro
a national disaster 3,249 were lost in action
from March '43. Bomber Harris underway
Eastern Versailles
Friedrichstein burning, in January 1945
a crime against EUROPA. by The Soviets
We crave remedy. reconstruction
On Tour (Warsaw)
The Ukrainian
Freedom Orchestra performed
Beethoven's huge 9th. Symphony
September 22nd
The Burning Question a Prusso-Nazi Coup?
Can a Germany
in toto, be blamed ? They bore
Gestapo, Goebbels. master of propaganda
Autumn Equinox exact date debated
An end to Haiku,
and you are no longer you.
A life is a leaf Ave Maria
September 23rd
Impromptu Haiku for Fiona i.m.
Studier of sky,
I am at my work again
flaneur Baudelaire
Carte Postale Home
Je suis en vacances
finalement, dans le mois
de Septembre triste. en Auvergne
After Mighty Wind after Basho
Sunlit cat window
in you I rejoice, five feet
width to cloud-gazing. not under
Conference Zoom for HS2 doomed
Business jowl leaders who has the largest
prank Theatre Of The Absurd,
in prowl banging on.
September 25th
Under A Cloud for Mervyn Peake
Forbidding weather,
for the forbidden joying
with Maypole dancing.
September 27th
nb style crisis : using the words for + with too often
nb 2 please note the copyright notices at the bottom
of every page of digital papyrus. (4 refs account no.)
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Standing Note Of Advice ex a friend of A. Pope :
re the must-read by Martinus Scriblerus :
Peri Bathous (Greek script) or
His Treatise Of The Art Of Sinking In Poetry printed
for B Motte at The Middle Temple Gate Fleet-Street
in March 1727. (Buried River Fleet runs to the west
of my drafting studio, flowing below Malden Road)
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