Lifebelt Post by Sydney Clouts
Horizon approaching, wave by wave in the million crumples before the placid gull reflects. A steep stone scaled abruptly by the salt, remains. But that old timber with its hook of rusted metal [...]
Earth, Sky by Sydney Clouts
I walked with a flower stuck red in my coat, it flamed for an hour and then it went out. The hilltop above me shimmered like stars, the houses passed me they were white upon white. Then the dark [...]
Prescriptions by Sydney Clouts
For the unreflective, pepperpots to sneeze out ignorance or to at least exhaust it; for the ethical, tobaccosmoke; for fools, shipsirens returning to the sun some of its intensity. Pampoen the [...]
Of Thomas Traherne And the Pebble Outside by Sydney Clouts
Gusts of the sun race on the approaching sea. In the air Traherne’s Contentments shine. A jeweled Garden gazed at him. What shall be said of Paradise? Obscure vermilion heats the dim pebble I [...]
Roy Kloof Went Riding by Sydney Clouts
Near a field overflowing with barley I ride, my mother embroiders and lives by the sea. Small money she makes, with shimmering tones of a tower on top of a distant hill and combs of water sharp [...]
Within by Sydney Clouts
You look long about you intent on the world on a midsummer day; the sea flames hard it is rumpled like tin, the sun is burning dimension away. If you cast a pebble down it will clatter on the [...]
Intimate Lightning by Sydney Clouts
Too succulent for quinces comes this fresh quo vadis, Africa the bud the blossom the scent the intimate lightning. Tusks traded for cash lie somewhere staling under hessian, to be fetched for [...]
Karroo Stop by Sydney Clouts
A whole trainful of coal like a soul burnt black in a hole or tunnel, passed us slowly. We were halted in our carriage. The roll, roll, roll, roll, roll, roll, roll, dragged painfully, each truck [...]
