In this dream the sea beats drunken time. Sleep slips round our limbs like oil.…

Try again, try again: all is now transparent. Foxes creep from Calypso’s tent. And hedgehogs,…

Name the islands as they pass. Nosing them aside with the prow of a small…

Meadows pale an occlusive white. Stone balustrades sag, summer maintenance cheapens. Rats gnaw shortcuts through…

Him on whom his parents have not smiled, no god honors with his table, no…