Face Time
If you could see the face behind the phone each time you placed a call, touch the aching fingers that set each part in place If you could smell in…
The Death Of Guy Fawkes
The Death Of Guy Fawkes Guy Fawkes, 1605, plotted to blow up Parliament - his reasons were religious or something - he was Catholic - or Protestant - malcontent –…
General Officers Of The Great War by John Singer Sargent
Some Officers Of The Great War
My notes on a John Singer Sargent painting at the National Portrait Gallery, "General Officers Of the Great War": These men are sated, satisfied, tried and true, censured and cinched,…
Tarzan, Mon Ami
TARZAN, MON AMI (from his faithful friend Paul d’Arnot, Capt.) How lordly indeed you are, my friend, In the new suit from La Confection des Élysées. How you honour them…
Notes for a Willow Poem
notes for willow poemI walked through the willows.I let them drape their sad arms overme, let their man-o-war tentacles ofdespair sweep me down.I let them drag themselves across me,I let…
Apex
APEX Sauropod raking and hoovering delectibles from the lakebed making waves Ceratops snipping sappy timbers like copper cables - the sound like a wrecked galleon's masts cracking, knees popping. Flatting…
Daedalus with One Wing
DAEDALUS WITH ONE WING Wise Daedalus - with only one wing done - fled before a mob determined to string him up and pinata the hell out of the man.…
CSI: Hell Creek
CSI: HELL CREEK Cracked bones – long shanks – emerge from rust-strapped earth like a revelation by Nemesis, recalling hasty-covered violence. Who witnessed the killer slamming home through the ribcage,…
Ode To The Primordial Sea
Ode To The Primordial SeaThis sea at the shore of seas,Where other seas begin,Where is conceived the great Pangaea of seas. Panthalassa!that stretch three quarters of the way into the…
12 Poems Of Joy – XII
XIIThere is a kind and like-minded thing that lies beside you while you sleep.---read all 12 Poems Of Joy