To my 87 year old mother on losing a tooth
Now you have a pirate’s look –
at times a pirate’s laugh as well,
a high seas dry and salty cackle… Read whole poem
Black rock white rock
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… Read whole poem
What is it?
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… Read whole poem
Love song
Longing to find the object of this love that burns in me,
restlessly i reach out, seeking what calls me;
small though i am, this love is so vast,
this longing so great i can hardly eat or breathe
for the strength of the yearning within me… Read whole poem
Whaletalk
As we spoke i felt
our conversation become
a journey in a small boat
to glimpse great whales… Read whole poem
Betelgeuse
you vast, ageing, unstable star, red giant,
trembling on the verge of collapse, you’ve burned up
all your forces, now unpredictable –
but that collapse one day is as certain…
as is my own…. Read whole poem
