I…
cemetery of other men’s bastards let
wane and peter out
because I am jealous of the Muse’s fornications
and over timid to be a cuckold!

 

Meanwhile you
have raised a sufficient family of versicles;
like you in the main.

Basil Bunting, On Reading X’s collected works

 

 

Sally Gall, Quadrant.

 

 

David Burdeney, Mercator’s Projection

 

 

Mike Smith, Gray, Tennessee

 

 

Dandelions