Easy Street
Roller skating down the main road in the cycle lane, her easy, smooth and flowing scissor stride on booted castors,…
Another Slice
All the books stored above our heads, all the books there aren’t enough hours to read again, and still we…
Siftings
And we awake like children to tiny snow sprinkled on shed and car roofs, thinking, Will it last, will it…
Act of Faith
This winter morning between seven and eight, half a white moon still present, a ghost not shining on plentiful frost…
Proof and Belief
On the hearth of the working fireplace, the flags dusted with ash, we leave mince pies and a bottle of…
Bequest
Knowing he was ill he offered a free choice of the books on his shelves, but for every one wanted…
Coffee with Annie
I am thinking about you Annie now that you are no longer a few miles of motorway and a couple…
Treasure
Walking down the sands to investigate what they might find, shells or stones, flotsam pieces abandoned by tides, two figures…
Dreams
Early August and not yet half past eight, but all along the dual carriageway more than half the cars have…
Cold-blooded
An unidentified lizard, the same size as a Grecian stick, the colour of dirtied sand, holds the dissolving power of…
Sum total
Midnight to dawn adding one more to the serial tally, love and irritation carried over, borrowed and paid back, all…
Up at the Villa
Figs, lemons, almonds and holidaymakers, the fronds of palms and those fierce plants whose sharp extrusions in place of leaves,…
Results
The school holidays in the final furlong and the next new phase and term in clear sight. This is when…
Approaching Little Big Horn
All spring the scattered bands gathered, the People, the Human Beings, all those like themselves on this earth — Lakota…
Heaven
Perhaps Heaven is like being foreign abroad where even the groceries appear exotic. All is before you exactly as it…
The Email About Writing the Poem
I’ve been occupying myself trying to write a long-ish poem. It’s an odd sensation writing a poem. You’re trying to…
