Limitations
(for Ursula Wood)
Father
you
hand guiding gaze
fixed Venus
on my retina
last night
tonight
another cloudless sky
I cannot recognize
any
constellation
stars and planets
remain
in chaos
without you:
my patient telescope
still you know not where God lives
Passport
a spaceship has no anchor
to keep it
from dreaming
travelling
is tugging
at an umbilical cord
I am always offspring
of continent
yet my spirit is a Briton
and my limbs spring from strange soil
AD
before whose time
am I alive
will I be a haunting spirit
looking
over brilliant shoulders
will I copy poetry
in chimney dust
dating it 73 yrs after me