From European Hymns
Armoire
Afternoon heat Jackdaws fail
to settle across the square
that’s not quite a square shaded
Golden light drones underpin
circular motifs though the days
are seemingly numbered
with shortening days there’s still
that something when over the
brown morning comes to pass
Translate those clicks completely
firewood & and an armoire stocked
calls home & familiar voices
while the one truth is etched on a
chalk board & postcards advertising
museums wait to be fixed
to the wall digital signal is clearer
than analogue blast through notebook
await the minimalism manual
a helicopter above the wood pull
move the shade all the better
for seeing the pretty
KJFO Interim Report
Get the pencil out move softly & securely
leave the date off the top of the page it’d
only add to the confusion
translate when needs be like the sleeve
to ‘Radioactivity’ & when city streets are
quiet & sun cuts through
steps down a mountain of energy &
a river of power a high-speed telegraph
bridge scansion remnants
repurposed grandeur & surge of sidings
before rebuilding of la gare pendulum
swinging King Hannah’s
Lowdeine moment in slow motion through
the folklore of Collins’ notes in out under &
through
Kling’s avalanche light cascades onto
stencilled benches ‘you’ve photographed
that before’ seems appropriate
enough the bakery’s closed yet the Paris
train is en-route unbridled intensity in
escaping north read
the small print impremé en Allemagne
par Neef Wittengen Made in
West Germany provides a lifetime
of pure listening enjoyment the need to
wean off commodities conducting chores
in a shuffled sequence
forewarned by the director of engineering
over at Van Geller’s pan European trip
carry the codes
Andrew Taylor is a Nottingham based poet, editor and critic. His third collection of poems Not There-Here was published by Shearsman Books in October 2021 and follows Radio Mast Horizon (2013) and March (2017). He has collaborated with musician and writer Nick Power, poet Charlie Baylis and visual artist Julie Jones. He is the editor of the forthcoming double volume edition of Peter Finch’s Collected Poems. He is the author of Adrian Henri: A Critical Reading (Greenwich Exchange, 2019). He teaches Creative Writing and English at Nottingham Trent University.