Change:  by TS Eliot (about whom I have ambivalent feelings). Over the course of 2007-2010 the original poem, 'The Garden City', expanded into a longer, basically autobiographical but wide-ranging sequence. I would say the general theme is the doubtfulness of hope.The Apple OrchardThese fragments I have   View changes from previous version. (Word count: 439)

Change: Sun on the white walls over the green.Two old men heave a giantbox from their lorry (John Lewis).Mrs Albon is pleased and the spiderhangs content in her web. Up on the hill, two policewomenskip from door to door.'Yes, there've been break-ins.'The crab   View changes from previous version. (Word count: 1132)

Change: friendly, bearded guideengineer has shown us on his diagrams the furnace and the turbine room, explained how crates and furniture get cleaned and shredded for the plant. Through a round glass I peer and see an orange whirl of flames and sparks: beneath the skin of the machine the   View changes from previous version. (Word count: 1084)

Change: slowly tumble heads down -foaming -melt into the purple rocks -streaking -flow out in a fleshy brook - smoking -rise above the yellow scarp -ghosting -condense in bodies of grey trees -swaying.The above poem was based on one of Tamar Yoseloff's postcards at her workshop.   View changes from previous version. (Word count: 1085)

Change: ****s*** as far as the horizon. Da sah ich sie liegen: schön unsere Dörfer. Today in the provisional present I live in my great-grandfather’s house and still walk in the mud. One day after the apple orchard is gone, after the borogoves are gone, after the garden   View changes from previous version. (Word count: 1141)

Change: The heart of the burning poppy is a black holerimmed with toothbrushes.From the petals' edge toothbrushes and paintbrushesscream into the green opal of space.The arse of the poppy strains, strainsand sheds rain on the dark Ionian Sea.Cleopatra escapes in a   View changes from previous version. (Word count: 1140)

Change: basically autobiographical but wide-ranging sequence. I would say the general theme is the doubtfulness of hope.NB The sections 'Piece of a dark rock' and 'A clear puddle' are meant to be indented.The Apple OrchardProloguePiece of a dark rockwhere the elves dwelledthe old elves. When   View changes from previous version. (Word count: 1261)

Change: NB The sections 'Piece of a dark rock' and 'A clear puddle' are meant to be indented.The Apple OrchardPrologue Piece of a dark rock where the elves dwelled the old elves. When they broke the rock, did the elves die, did the elves flee? When will   View changes from previous version. (Word count: 1257)

Change: There were only format changes (bold, italics, etc.) in this version. See this version for details. (Word count: 1184)

Change: There were only format changes (bold, italics, etc.) in this version. See this version for details. (Word count: 1184)