Housing Target
Not one and a half
million awkward houses
but fewer people.
Tourist Mecca mud-brick 'place of armour'
Diriyah, Saudi :
not a place for the mega rave
or lover of wine.
July 9th
Decentred after TSE
Life, media hell
of the distraction gabble
with no cantata.
They Fled Africa for Cecil and Molly
my Grandmother
'Julia, I have
the answer. We must rebirth
bread-full Rhodesia' bread basket of Africa
July 11th
Response Haiku cf Abolition of The Lords
The Heritage Peer
dead, a road to a frantic
assassination.
V-Day : October 7
The day of vengeance
far better left to the tides
of raft October.
Cappuccino Joke
Did you know, my beau
Julia, the CIA
might solve our problem !
Breakfast Rambler
Julie : for starters
we ought to play fair. Allow
their one hundred days.
Le Grand Retour
We pipe tons of Pims
avant heading to our Gyms
ou filles cram their things !
Chez La Table Grande
Les mots conveying
greatest dread from my father :
Suez, et Berlin.
The London Curia im cher Kate Melvin
A minority
Cult cannot foil The Lords,
well bred, born to rule. 'we were'
Thesis Kate M wip-linguistics
A writer brillant
of Latinate prose, foretold
our language splitting. to ungovernable
July 13th
July Sunday
I caught three foxes
aligned with lawn, sunbathing
on holy morning.
July 14th
After A Climb
Reading Montale, Eugenio
on the square backing St Jude on-the-hill
a beatitude.
Thank you, Henrietta Dame Barnett
I reached great Beauty
on my Oyster card ex Heath,
Edwin Lutyens. (1869-1944; built St Jude)
Bin The Sinful parodic of the Muslim
They refute beauty, or, deny
and the woman linear
eager in music. or, blissful
Istanbul, But 1453+
Antemurale
Christianitatis gone,
Al-Andelus won.
St Jude-on-the-Hill 1909-1935
Hybrid Byzantine,
Gothic and Quattrocento
Baltic Romanesque.
July 19th cf the killings in the Southport dance class
Heatwave
Interminably
hot, like Sicily, catching
fire in August.
July 20th
AI Visage
Artificial
Spirit, a non sequitur
as in a figure.
July 21st
Education Reform
Bring back the birch, cane
deportment, elocution
rigour for each class.
July 22nd
Joan Journal 1954
General Airey my father his ADC in Trieste
a Godfather, nearly. I
christened, Kensington.
The Christening
Why, in Kensington ?
The Church near The Basil Street
Hotel, for parents.
July 24th
Alexandra Palace (At)
A total grandeur,
skyscape amazing over
basin of London.
Palais D'Alexandra
Un grandeur totale,
nuages incroyable sur
basin de Londres.
July 25th
Ayrton House Mill Hill on The Ridgeway
So hubristic : might
the green roof proffer target
foray, RAF ? Bomber Command
Overbuild
What will the children
say ? wondering why on earth
the green is unseen.
The March To Finchley Hogarth (1750)
Where, the saving grace ?
in spiky effrontery
to a rabid geed.
The Mill Field c. 1350-1750
Time is about how
you use time, not competing
but expanding time. on The Ridgeway
July 27th finis
Nowa Huta 1949+
High Stalinism
dug deep for steel production
in Poland, Czecko.
Guardian Angel
For disaster time
rather than ordinary
time, and the turning. to Maria
July 28th
In Limbo
Can Hell be better
than rotting in a ditch, life
an abandoning ?
July 29th
Noted Briefly
Playing table-tennis
at seven in the morning :
Maitland Park Estate.
Memoranda, Finchley
The Christ-reformed Jew
later, Catholic : read firm
The New Testament.
Thunder From Hampstead by Fletcher
Christ : a reforming
Jew, who over-hauled their Law
and part, Trinity.
July 30th
Stucco Parfait
Purer than Potsdam, bombed, sadly
Gloucester Terrace, on Regent's
Park ; quasi Wedgewood. the statuary
Emperor Julianus A.D. 332-363
Roman Julian a pagan
the Apostate, tried to quell
Christianity.
August 20th for July 31st et finito
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