May

nobler than Ethan Allen stand
his fault his three-fold picklock
beard Hugin and Munin bibulous
asked him if he'd like
to die hung horseshoe on
worldtree ophthalmic dewdrop ototoxic more
alive it is bad wholly
tocsin's fury felons' iron zeal

April

dame's rocket upon the very
tops cruellest saints rose garden
rocket a thrush pipe it
blue say vulgar summer songs
for me and my aunts
anglers only once brook paschal
retrievements sent finished hoick us
star above diamond sky what

February

heaven's beau ideal toil river
stoppered up in a fennel
stalk covert for you seen
and ungathered a devil sates
sweet alisoun abloom stave glamours
distempers calm small globe O
casques abutting planetary flageolets flap-dragons
wallowed no bate marathon farfetched

January

eft gilded eye code emblem
synapse eftsoons eyeless conquistador cast
bright trails brassock charlock leaves
marginalia venom'd sting purge mortal
grossness ox-beef devoured should eat
each other eftest scruple silique
offend with good will forsworn
naught bottom a tonnap year

Epigraph

Potter hates potter, carpenters compete,
And beggar strives with beggar, bard with bard.

December

et passim rivis currentia vina repressit

our whole sad story wine turned
to black and filthy gore flowing wine
and entrails constant singing song
unending groans and savage cries
their songs caressed the sky a breath
legend the jolly bowls go round
he spewed his soul the purple soul
vomits out his purple life like a
purple flower like a poppy no one
handier at smearing spears with poison
and setting music to the lyre
cut it down--though it was holy
what good has it done you?
(a fiendish gall that has no remedy)

November

arise once more
enriched with the spoils
by a hundred brazen knots
so saying
hallooing perhaps agleam
with the colour of roses
where once had been huts
all made of bronze
--'twas a wonder to see--
build it anew
unwearying song that none
durst enter a ball
at their feet Apollo
had offered a gift he chose