Friday, 15 April 2011

Directions by Michael Hofmann

Found in Selected Poems Michael Hofmann

The new    south east cemetery
is approximately   nowhere
ten stops by underground   then bus
zigzagging   through the suburbs
as bad as Dachau   and you end up
still getting out   a stop early
at the old   south east cemetery
on which it abuts   tenements
market gardens expressways   and then
it's huge   carp in the ponds gardeners
drunks rolling on the paths   fighting
lavender and roses   round the corner
is a cafe   with an upstairs
long long tables   and slabs of cakes

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