wordsout by godfrey rust
Collections of poems and readings    


THE PLACE WHERE 

SOCKS GO

Poems 1980-90.
Published in three editions (1985, 1988, 1990). Most poems were re-published in Breaking the Chains.

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Poems below appeared in this order in the final (1990) edition. 
Those marked * were not carried forward to Breaking the Chains. 

Miracles

Adam

Nuclear family

The place where socks go

Roneo and Juliet

Carrick

Synod

In Foyle's bookshop

Joseph and the shepherds

The journey of the magi (cont.)

Convert

Disciple

A modern wife

Missing*

Signs

Casualties*

The Devil's Tinderbox

Eve

Four truths

Monster

Nappy Christmas

You can't be too careful

Mr Yates*

Dream

Aberdaron

The Professor at work

Sharks*

Phantom

Prophet and loss*

The comfort of the rain

Notes for a biography

A Laodicean estate agent writes

Showbiz*

Mr Gallup reports

Philosophy

Poem for Christmas Eve

First lesson

The optimist explains

The man who got on at Ealing

Revised version

The dangers of theology

Paul's letter from Delirium*

At Grasmere

Drunkard

Told you so

Script*

Arithmetic

Columbus*

Runner

Breaking the chains

Icons*

They had no credit cards

Apocalypso

Beirut

Vocation
In Gethsemane*

Economics

Has anybody here seen Thomas?

Mary

Mischief

Teddy bears

Other poems appearing in earlier editions:

Babel

Beirut (original poem of that title)

Communion of saints

Depends how you look at it

ET (the Extra-Terrestrial)

Finger-counting rhyme

Heart and mind

Home improvements

Hunger

Incident at dinner

On a Melbourne tram

Probability

The first football riot in China

The gallery

Two by two

Two-timer

Two down