| Child Murders Three                           at Southport
 
 Mecca was to blame,
 for the ideology
 the dancers killing.                            in a dance class
 
 Dora Markus                     Montale by Lowell (1962)
 
 1926,
 1939. Sponged by
 Elizabeth B.                  cf 'At The Fishhouses' (1955)
 
 Horror Hogarthian                      for The Daily Mail
 
 A plenitude daft,
 of a jerky multitude
 peering, to leering.            cf 'Four Stages Of Cruelty'
 
 August 4th
 
 Peuple Peturbe'
 
 No identity
 to speak of, blood poisoning
 a factor in love.
 
 August 6th
 
 Taught At Kibbutz Gadot         below Golan (1972)
 
 Only good Arab
 is a dead one. Or good
 Moslem, a dead one.
 
 Pulawy, Poland
 
 Temple of Sibyl                                  (on the Vistula)
 at Pulawy part-survived
 Germany, Stalin.                built 1796-1801; ex Tivoli
 
 August 7th
 
 St. Paul's Cathedral                                1086-1666
 
 Norman Romanesque
 in prime building, then English
 Gothic, Inigo.                                                     Jones
 
 August 8th
 
 In The Hand Of God                               ex St Dom's
 
 Not dead in a ditch                      cf Dollis Brook et al
 in North Finchley, another
 failure at selling.
 
 Not A Government
 
 A minority,
 poisoning majority
 Credo, greenery.
 
 American Honey                cf Andrea Arnold (2016)
 
 Death Of A Salesman                                          1949
 by Arthur Miller, thought
 fraught with Marxism.                      or, Communistic
 
 August 9th
 
 Le Cimetiere Marin                               after Valery
 
 We become mirage
 in the heating atmosphere
 sur la tombe, la mer.
 
 Resurrection Ou
 
 A chanting of souls
 comme un palpitation,
 dans le bleu silent.
 
 August 11th
 
 Archilochos                                      from Quintilian
 
 He grew on Paros,
 perfected the iambus
 c. 8th c. B.C.                      cf. the iambic pentameter
 
 Simonides                                              c. 750 B.C.+
 
 In his iambics
 the language was Ionic,
 from the Sporades.  ex Greek Lyric Poetry (Bantam)
 
 Sappho                              source book pbl. 1962/67
 
 She penned seven Books
 read culled in Byzantium.
 Nearly all destroyed.
 
 Library Catastrophe             and now Birmingham
 
 The Muslim sacking
 of liber Byzantium,
 Alexandria.
 
 August 12th
 
 Stesichoros Gone                       born Sicily 630 B.C.
 
 He : ranked with Homer
 had, at Alexandria
 twenty six books burnt.
 
 Ibykos                     nobly born Rhegium c. 650 B.C.
 
 Saw 'the Spartan girls
 that are naked-thighed and man-
 crazy' palpitate.                                           censored
 
 August 13th
 
 Pindar                                           cf Gray of 'Elegy..
 
 I raptured Pindar
 in thrall to the sublime, who
 sang Olympian.
 
 Albion Regnum                                      for Sebag M
 
 We brought discipline                            sub-Saharan
 to Africa, with Bible
 study for our Queen.               in The Mission School
 
 August 14th
 
 On Feast Of The Assumption
 
 Silicon Valley
 an arbiter of evil
 the robed Priest declared.
 
 Sea Acres Gone
 
 Eastbury Manor :
 Prussian-Elizabethan
 Tudor, off Barking.
 
 August 15th
 
 Ferry Lane Rainham
 
 Crow Metals Metal
 Recycling, the new scrap yard.
 Crow, scaling the light.
 
 New Build Kafka-esque
 
 From edge Mill Hill East
 to Thames Gateway Rainham
 tall brick, minute windows.
 
 At St. Helen's Church                           by Priestess
 
 'Helen fell in love                                   Romano-Brit
 with a Roman soldier. She
 bred Constantine, Great.                the, for Byzantium
 
 August 17th
 
 Highgate News
 
 'Gate Cemetery
 Newsletter is monthly. What
 changes underground ?
 
 August 19th
 
 Osterley Vista
 
 Five Park Lakes parted
 by roaring M4, Temple
 Porch view, Tower block.
 
 Heathrow Teatime
 
 The Etruscan Room                          by Robert Adam
 studied, I watched five BA Flights
 come low through cedar.                      near lake walk
 
 August 21st
 
 Party Of The Pigs
 
 George Orwell, you were
 right in your disgust total.
 Guzzle cake, white bread !                      not sardines
 
 Saviour Of Poland
 
 Love of the Virgin
 Mary, her chant rhapsody
 tormenting Stalin.                                 and The KGB
 
 August 22nd
 
 Lost At Sea                                                      for HL
 
 Beyond Palermo,
 and the Norman Odessey
 therein, so too young                                         to die
 
 August 23rd
 
 Swiftie Era
 
 Hypnotic ; plaintive
 and poignant ; Dylan : anti
 cheer American.
 
 Veritas Swirl
 
 Did their flyover                                       as in States
 dream, ruined, give her subject ?
 small town despondent.
 
 August 25th
 
 Thin As A Rake                            after Robert Frost
 
 A jar of sardines
 can go a very long way
 preserved, from the fray.
 
 August 26th
 
 Monticello Fable                   built 1772 by Jefferson
 
 Conquest of The Red
 Indian, for The Augustan
 and Palladio.                       by Vitruvius (80-15 B.C.)
 
 August 27th
 
 Jude Lawn Contrasting          by Hampstead Heath
 
 Late life exercise
 group, in black, and the sprinter -
 in a bikini.
 
 Baltic Brick Gothic                                 on-the-Hill
 
 Am I in Stralsund ?
 Metal steeple defiant
 in epochal sky.                                  above St. Jude's
 
 August 28th
 
 Plaint
 
 October, summer
 still, in Aquitaine, where, though
 I yearned Caroline.
 
 September Saunter
 
 Driving the coast road
 direction Biarritz
 California !
 
 August 29th
 
 Coastguard
 
 London, the harbour
 of eternity, a scribe
 wrote, by a sea wall.
 
 Tidal
 
 Or, a harbourer
 rather than harbour. Many
 the portal with causeway.
 
 August 30th
 
 Saturday Morning Blues
 
 Of that conjugal
 depression, love expiring
 in the exhaustion.
 
 August End
 
 Am I dead August
 enough ? after the horror
 terribilita
 
 August 31st  finito maintenant
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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