A man built a house.
That man years later
became Prime Minister.
I like the idea
of a Prime Minister
being able
to build a house.
Another man,
a man I know,
builds boats.
He builds boats like
Beethoven, say, wrote symphonies or
Henry Moore
cut so deep
to the heart of a stone one day
he discovered, he said,
the sky on the other side.
This man builds boats in his garden.
They’re launched from there –
his garden that floats
a step above full tide.
And when the tide is full in Tory Channel
the moon comes to watch.