«6 The rest of you can eat me up / I just record your behaviour! / For you they’ll find dining tables / to lay you out This desk for me! Because I’ve been happy with little / there are foods I’ve never tasted. / The rest of you dine slowly. / You’ve eaten too much and too often....»
«The bus jumped, like a brazen / evil spirit, a demon / cutting across the traffic / in streets as cramped as footnotes, / it rushed on its way shaking / like a concert-hall vibrating / with applause. And we shook in it! / Demons too. Have you seen / seeds under a tap? We were / lik...»
«When I look at the flight of the leaves in / their floating down on to the paving of cobbles / and see them swept up as if by an / artist who has finished his picture at last I think how (already nobody likes either / the way I stand, or my thoughtful face) / a manifestly yellow, decidedl...»
«Morning and evening, darkness and light — / Fishermen black and fishermen white. / The world’s like an ocean; like fishes are we, / Like fishes that swim in the depths of the sea. The world’s like an ocean where fishermen wait, / Preparing their nets, their hooks and their bait. / H...»