(The Everyday English Dictionary)

 

secret:

	I have stolen things —

	bricks	            an old mortarboard

	handfuls of cement dust

	smuggled in my pockets
 

city:

	everyone and their cats and dogs

	the press of legs

	accretions of noise dirt smog

	all you knew

	longing for something green

	or faraway and blue
 
smuggle:

	if there is a hollow

	use it

	absence is abhorred

	makes me fond

	is the room full of blondes

	and being the only raven

	in the middle
 
accretion:

	fed drop by drop from the cave top

	a stalagmite grows

	a Moorish song

	sung at night

	a fire

	some smoke

	and the dogs barking

	at anything that moves
 
hollow:

	to feed it a number of ways

	there is the roasted gecko

	ground seeds of the Johannes tree

	stolen almonds	       pilfered oranges

	impatient waiting for pomegranates

	to fruit its red hips

	today I found a secret patch of frogs

	singing their cracked song
 
Moor:

	a pattern emerges from the tile

	something blue      something green

	a history               an old story

	ancient steam from ancient baths

	a carved star falling

	from the roof