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A Day in the Life of a War  There is cherry blossom drifting on the wind, blossom which is pink-white and white-pink.


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A Fireman Writes They breathe the same air, that's the worst of it. / They leave it wet, you can smell their exudate, / You can hear their castanets, their soft suede shoes


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A Mantra This is the meditation of steel, / Mahatma, Bodhivsattra - / My fingers slick the oil / Over breech-block and gas plug.


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A Short Poem A short / Poem / Struts / On stilts


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Camouflage    Shape. / And the clouds shape the phoenix / And are ignored.


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Cicada Sun - a New Zealand poetry -   In the cicada's season, down at the Cove, we watched / The long swell which banks the summer berm / In tangles of scintillating mica, cracked shell,


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Coming Into Harbour - a meditation on the death of the writer's maternal grandfather. It has been days now, / With strangers in the house, / Their shadows / Changing on the walls,


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Desolter  Lost amidst machines


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Dissection: An Opossum   As the scalpel peeled the skin from the intestines, / A week's decay gave evidence of its workings.


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Dragon  Relaxed within razors. / Attuned to the heartbeat of silence, / The ecstasy of zero.


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Dreamscape With Giraffes  I am a search engine. / My landscape is XX erotic.


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Dreams of Lothlorien - a city poem, a poetry of urban life.


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Fragments   She sang in the rain, contriving galactic anatomies, / Injecting her fur coat with ultraviolet bees.


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Freeze Frames   A girl and a boy / Holding hands for public inspection.


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Grafton In Spring    The winds pasture in the clouds; / The earth breathes:


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Helen of Troy    It is night. / Lofted above the whalesmoke waves of Ocean,


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I Am A Television Set My cardboard has corners. / My orgasms are shaved by a toothbrush. / I will pipe you a music of / Gouged shoecream marrons, of / Peppermint munitions, of / Koizumi haircuts, of / Hedgehog genocides and


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I Remember    I slipped my kiss into your naked mouth. My hands


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Making Peace With Bombs   We are feeding the children with promises / We are making peace with bombs


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Men Without Amnesty - a poetry about torture and torturers.  They are masters of the smoked-glass stare. / They may be untutored men, / But they are well-versed in the scholarship of pain.


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Monsoon - Delirium's downpour / Swamps the tides of evening. / Gin sets lips to champagne. / Night sweats; pearls of sweat / Squat in armpit and crotch.


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Mozart the Fish Embryo poetry - pregnancy poem: In a world without clocks / Something which is not yet someone / Is swimming.


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Nightmare Nightmare poetry - nightmare poetry: Hangs upside down in the dragon's dungeon, / Pregnant with stingrays. / Thighs leaking. / The Malatroon grins


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Nine Steps to California The sky is a block of body ice. The flashlights are violet, questing. The gnarled white trees are


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Petition for a Flat Earth My lords and ladies, / I am a poor man, / And a humble man. / My hand feeds myself, / Clothes myself, / Heals myself. / I know only one need / Beyond my own sustaining, / And so I make my petition: / Give us a flat earth.


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Poised Between Limbo And Guantanamo George crawled into his hole, / Wet with blood, / Smiling. / The reflected zero


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Proze Poem Take an image and imagine ... imagine a poetry imagine a ... I'm thirsty ... imagine a waterfall poetry imagine the machinegunner blank behind sunglasses


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Sex Metal   Sex metal zex metal zow metal zap metal - / Look, George, look!


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Snails Snails / Groove on rain / & lettuce sandwiches ... / if God / was a lettuce sandwich


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Sodium Thiosulphate  Sodium thiosulphate simmers / In a clear blue stream of bunsen flame / That whispers round the testube glass


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Somewhere Far From the Sea  It is a cold day but the fat boy sweats, /Giggling his jowls to bouncing blubber,


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Sonnet - (Gull Flight) - iambic pentamter poetry - Through long hours the flare rippled flame / On harbour waters shoaled with light


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Spam  Those who have fathomed my desires / Are sending me e-mail. / The world at my window, / Cams wide open, / Offering me


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Still Life    Sits on his bed with his five mates round him, / Fresh from the pub,


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Sun Poem Sheltered by concrete / Sufficient against nuclear attack. / The sun is a wet rag, breathable.


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Test Pattern    Limp meat and a hangover / Slumps in the living room; The test pattern sucumbs to soap and suds,


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The Death of Nestor    In Pylos, old man Nestor grins: too often. / Nine battlefields creak in his kneecaps.


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The Death of Patroclus    Now it is noon. / At apogee of light, defined by sun, / Patroclus finds his own apotheosis. / He is man no longer - bronze. / And Hector likewise - a rumor in the dust.


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The Erasure of Certainty - a globilization poem.   The erasure of certainty / Was never quite announced / But has arrived.


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The Face Fearful - a hypochondria poetry - The ground is a tract of infection. / The sun streams with X-rays, / And a tumour floats in the orange juice.


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The Whale - a rather dutiful poetry from 1977 about the wonders of the whale. The file contains a link to a rather more interesting prose piece about actually eating a whale.


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The fireworks are numb. Their vocal chords are gelatine / The car is combusting, combusting, combusting.


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The Kraken Wakes The little silver fish / Scatter like shrapnel


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The quality of glass is light. Her touch is vanilla.


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This Working Life Gouged by alarm clocks, harassed / By the feathers of soap. / Her face slips sideways. / The newspapers are preaching giraffes.


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Threnody So they're leaving now, for good - / His son with his decibel music,


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Tonga - medical aid mission Shrill antennae of hurricane / Worry the roof. / The spray drifts in the wind. / Yesterday, I swam / Adrift in the sponge-bath sea. /In the laboratory, / Clotted blood and faeces -


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Toward Ten O'Clock - a city poem, a poetry of urban life.


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Trojan War - selected poetry related to the Trojan War with commentary.


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very short poems - includes:-
The Fish
Van Gough
Sunflower
Cherry Blossom, April 2003
Odysseus on Delos
Warpoem
Warpoets


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Waterfall - poetry about a waterfall:    Under extremest skies, asundered mountains / Rift through the mist and are gone.


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Wide Windows  Morning comes; graves awaken / As chemical lids ajar.


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Wounded, Not Yet Dead   Late afternoon. / The Greeks and Trojans scuffle in the dust.


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Zenvirus - a totally irresponsible dada poetry designed to make no sense. Starts:   The giraffe stroked his neck. His norlazm / Throbbed across the city.


Who is Hugh Cook? Whois Hugh Cook? Who is hughcook?


Poetrywriter Hugh Cook was born in Britain but educated in Britain, so you can count him as a British poet or a New Zealand poet - that's up to you. He currently lives in Japan.

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