Poems 1960-2010

TO SEPTIMUS, FACE TO FACE AGAIN

Not many people can toast their muse
with real sherry made in Port Moody.

I’m a young man from here up.
From the waist down I’m dead or should be.

Not likely, dearest man, explaining yr fuchsias
grown from slips, hydrangeas blue & purple
from grafting, clematis weighing down the trellis.

My supper is brought in the evenings by Maureen.
Crossing that yard.  Well, well.

My middle name is Maureen too /
crossing that yard every time.
Every time.  Leave it at that.