| April 2
 
 Were Spring all vista
 Eliot. Unsettled by war,
 nothing a given.                                             ou, rien
 
 Bank Holiday                                      after Montale
 
 You remember Prague
 more than Vienna, or Munich
 spooning a whirl.                             as in Marienbad
 
 April Fool                                               after Brecht
 
 A cruelty rules
 in the bleak games of Fooling
 with a history.
 
 And Drank Coffee
 
 May we dare venture
 from the colonnade, sunlight
 in The Hofgarten ?                               Court Garden
 
 April 2nd
 
 Deja Vu                                                    after Woolf
 
 To guide the very
 best of the day, you reckon
 cloud shrinking to blue.
 
 Canary Call
 
 From Haverstock Hill
 to Canada Water, 1
 the bus to parting.
 
 April 4th
 
 Aid Convoy, Nova                     the Philistines struck
 
 The Kibbutz slaughter,                bad as at my Gadot
 the violated virgin
 brought retribution.
 
 Night-Tracks                          for Sara Mohr-Pietsch
 
 Suffit de More Peach                                    ou, assez
 bedded I to a sprawl, out
 unable to spell.                                   Polish-German
 
 April 5th
 
 Unwelcome
 
 The Liberators
 did not arrive with flowers
 in their hair ; but guns.
 
 'History, Christian'                     Brasenose College
 cabinet Library
 Liber Nuremberg                           printed illustrated
 Chronicle ; Latin, (14
 93). Schedel                                               Hartmann
 
 April 6th
 
 Holding The Line                      variants kept on file
 
 Defeated, the brave
 fought on living a prospect :
 terror of torture.
 
 In Stasiland (GDR)                    for Carl Zeiss Jena
 with thanks
 They hate The Russians
 exclaimed to me, in Leipzig                   Messehallen
 1982.                                          cf Thuringian Revolt
 
 Police State Scotland                     based on hearsay
 
 Arrest the Muslim                               Hamza Yousaf
 Fascist ! Send The Fifty-first
 Highland Division.                               cf Sicily 1943
 
 Sunday Event
 
 Weather worsening
 I knew not what to do, save
 regarding a Church.                             'not a Mosque'
 
 April 7th
 
 April Fool (r)                           cf The Nicene Creed
 
 The mincing, downbeat
 tonals of Canterbury
 not Holy Spirit.
 
 Channel Four                                       for Jon Snow
 
 In need of Teaching
 on how to broad an English
 propre, out on air.
 
 Emily Ce'libataire
 
 Opined Dickinson :
 a period of fasting
 led to great pleasure.
 
 Aprille Licour                 ex The Prologue (Chaucer)
 
 Spring : apprehending
 shock war, chemical to kill
 on The Eastern Front.
 
 April 8th
 
 As Jesus Did                                  claim by Vlad, he
 
 New Putin blunder :
 Jesus was a Reformer,
 not Law upholder.                               a rebel Jew, he
 
 April 10th
 
 Mariupol Blitz                                 March 20 2022
 
 A cardinal war
 crime : blowing up The Art School,
 creche shelter under.                               c. 400 dead
 
 April 12th
 
 Hypothetical                                       for The BAOR
 
 Will they shell their way
 far West ? Do they want Berlin ?
 fallen to rockets.                                      cf Katyusha
 
 Solus Deo Spoof
 
 Allah is lonely,
 One, with no Queen of Heaven
 and a Trinity.
 
 Premonitions
 
 Not an afternoon
 for reading Henry James, Wings
 of 1903.
 
 April 13th
 
 Fleet Of State                           for Joan and Trident
 
 The Muslim gruzzles.
 We cannot afford to pay
 the submariner.                         ref The First Sealord
 
 Marriage Photo (The Times)                       for Joan
 
 The husband pansy                              decried by her
 mating hysteria, pink
 fluttering ahead.
 
 April 14th
 
 Jeu d'Esprit (2)
 
 Sun, cloud, to windy
 sun, as proxy Canary
 Fuerteventura.
 
 April 15th
 
 Clouding Over (2)
 
 The weather collapsed
 upon early rising. Why ?
 A warning, maybe.
 
 April 16th
 
 Four Yorkshire Peasants
 
 Armitage, D. Hirst,
 K. Starmer, and a Sunak
 know not what to do.
 
 Villa Liebermann               on Lake Wannsee Berlin
 
 Romano-German
 (is that oxymoronic ?)
 the Hamburg Doric.
 
 April 17th
 
 For Washington                           ref Foreign Policy
 
 Donald, President
 must talk with Lord Cameron
 before pronouncing.
 
 Last Resort
 
 Beached on tab paving
 in the claw of danger, you
 aspire to sing.
 
 Bold Black Ad.                                              in CNJ
 
 Go To Death Cafe'
 and talk about death all day.
 Kentish Town Centre.
 
 Gas The Alienos !        Latin from The Lamentations
 of Jeremiah
 A sub-nosed woman                                untermensch
 cloaked, head-to-toe, in brown-black
 barged one from pavement.                               in MP
 
 April 18th
 
 Oxon. Royal                        guilty of educator fraud
 
 Wrong weighting : 'English'
 largely of French, and Latin
 not runt, brute Saxon.                       ref Anglo-Saxon
 
 Armageddon Fear (2)
 
 That awakening
 to, each dud morning: all gone
 in the flash but song.
 
 Wrecker Nation
 
 After Stalingrad,                                           1942-43
 great complaint thereof, Russia
 blitzed Mariupol.                                               2022
 
 Nation De De'molisseur
 
 Apres Stalingrad,                             ligne 2 du Metro
 lamentation, Le Russe
 blitzed Mariupol !                                      incroyable
 
 Dancing Honey Rap
 
 I snaffed a rich bar
 of Maltezer chocolat
 viewing J. Alba !                                             Jessica
 
 Dallying (Ukraine)
 
 Nero glee-fiddled                                     Sunak-Hunt
 as Chasiv Yar, Ukraine burned
 as did Rep. Congress.                             cf Sept 1939
 
 April 21st
 
 Noah Gone                                              after Auden
 
 More trains abandoned
 in floodwater : still it rains
 on the underground.
 
 April 22nd
 
 Conscript Training                    cf A.E. Housman IV
 
 For the REVEILLE
 Hymn, do we loud Jerusalem
 on the Camp Tannoy ?
 
 April 25th
 
 April Revival (r)                  for Sir Henry Crosfield
 
 The Kenwood Estate
 larger than The City, dim
 far below, in haze.
 
 Morning Gallery
 
 'Skying' Constable                                          his term
 cloud, on Hampstead north-west
 and pond with bathing.
 
 April 26th
 
 Sunday Lament
 
 Our sub-seasonal
 temperatures afflicted
 an April dying.
 
 April 28th
 
 Chris Hayward   City of London Corporate Policy
 
 A man who has had
 a lot of Lunch, in The City
 and managed a Bank.
 
 April 30th
 
 Sherry Riposte (2025)             if W2EQ - post Putin
 
 'Well, Chris, the thing is,                                   to CT
 the way Russia has behaved
 ticked our Nazi link'            to an Oxon full decanter
 
 Venice Biennale 2024
 
 Russian Pavilion
 (The) lent to Bolivia..
 Second year, absent.
 
 April 30th
 
 May Preview                                     redacted Haiku
 
 Kate Moss : she dolled half
 of Vogue demi nu, slinky,
 slim ; Primavera                                     of Botticelli
 
 April 30th withdrawn
 
 
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