power and conflict

• Flowing flakes that flock
• Black with snow
• All their eyes are ice
• Merciless iced east winds that knive us
• Dawn massing in the east her melancholy army
• Exploding comfortably
• We are prepared
• You know what I mean
• Spray hits
• Hissing like a tame cat turned savage
• Squat, slate - Air, fear
• Smoothed and stroked
• Transparent with attention
• Paper that lets the light shine through
• Maps too. The sun shines through
• Living tissue, raise a structure never meant to last, of paper smoothed and stroked
• Turned into your skin
• There once was a country
• Bright, filled paperweight
• Branded by an impression of sunlight
• I can't get it off my tongue
• I comb its hair and love its shining eyes
• My shadow falls as evidence of sunlight
• There's my last Duchess, Looking as if she were alive
• A heart - how shall I say? - too soon made glad
• Sir, 'twas all one
• My gift of a nine-hundred-years-old name
• I gave commands; then all smiles stopped together
• Notice Neptune, though, Taming a sea horse
• Look on my works, ye mighty and despair
• Colossal wreck
• Wrinkled lip and sneer of cold command
• I met a traveller from an antique land
• Lone and level sands stretch far away
• Mind-forged manacles
• Runs in blood down palace walls
• Black'ning church appals
• Chartered street, Chartered Thames
• Youthful harlot's curse, blights the new born baby's tears
• Marriage hearse