All safe as houses, fire
kennelled in a matchbox,
the water of drowned valleys
dammed behind taps.
Barring accidents, or malice –
nothing's disaster-proof.
Bicycle and Other Poems (1970)
All safe as houses, fire
kennelled in a matchbox,
the water of drowned valleys
dammed behind taps.
Barring accidents, or malice –
nothing's disaster-proof.
Bicycle and Other Poems (1970)