Survival Kit

Contents:

3 Garments: Around my neck,
the plunder of 400 massacred silkworms
Around my wrist,
two bands made by Getachew,
before he was electrocuted
On my feet,
a heaviness
like an outrider's 10 league boots

3 appointments with K:
Blindfolds
Honeys
Kidnapping

3 Derbyshire hills:
Bullicka
Pennilow
Wolfscote

3 Winter birds:
Rook
Dove
Coal-tit

3 Kinds of Derbyshire stone:
Blue John
Fluorspar
Lime

Example of appropriate assembly:

K & I play with blindfolds
Her back cold as Blue John
polished by rain.
Our lips scramble
up a silence
like a white side of Wolfscote.
Then I take,
from around my neck,
the plunder of 400 massacred silkworms
and plant tiny whirlpools on her,
like coal-tits landing on a feeder