Poet 3


A little toe note
a small written history
a thread bare chain of office
a drawing room for corpses
a clue left, the evidence quiet.

A name, a sex, a place,
a day, a month, a year.

Scribbled water proof labels
covered in blue biro eulogies,
death's time-tabled reference.

Later in the sweet spoon of earth
angels will snip with silver scissors
mans crudely cuffed indifference.

A little toe note
a small written history
a thread bare chain of office
a drawing room for corpses
a case rested, a finger printed.


John G.Hall(C)2004