Category: poem

now you have a pirate’s look – at times a pirate’s laugh as well, a high seas dry and salty cackle. perhaps i should get you a three cornered hat, an old grey parrot with a line in cynical aphorisms, baggy pants and a sword shaped like a young moon, so you can travel in […]

blue black mussels tight shut in bunches  heap among the soft, sea-rounded, cheese-holed chalk chunks,  millions and millions and millions, a bounty of them.   sea-worked round grey flints gather in the pounded hollows of scoured white chalk as for a forgotten game.  the sea has dropped its toys: tyres, brooms, shoes, bottles;  an outcast shopping trolley […]

Promise of this moment feels infinite, Impossible to express, just out of reach and beckoning. I sense connections, yes, just out of reach But all the more alluring; mind wings Want to unfurl, fly free across impossible landscapes… Is this self-deception or something else? I can’t recall now where anything began, but like a falling […]