Poems

Dayshifts

9 January 2014 3:00 pm

The Man in the Moon will come on Tuesday. He will wear his grey hat and be travelling alone. Take…

Forgiveness

4 January 2014 9:00 am

The bunting was hardly down, and the bones of the feast hardly buried in sand, when the prodigal son started…

A Yorkshire Christmas Eve

14 December 2013 9:00 am

His nearby town wore annual evening-dress, cheap jewellery of lights, white fur and bright drapes of Santa red which might…

The Price of Fame

14 December 2013 9:00 am

Try not to meet us in the flesh We’ll disappoint you if you do, Our dandruff and our garlic breath…

Dining with a Picasso

23 November 2013 9:00 am

We had decided to dine out with our latest Picasso. The Picasso sat at the head of our table. It…

on not answering

5 October 2013 9:00 am

I was late for dinner not because I wanted to exercise restraint but because I wanted to hear them calling…

Poker

21 September 2013 9:00 am

To Dad You wonder if it’s worth the gamble getting up out of your armchair onto your bad leg, to…

Building a Bridge

14 September 2013 9:00 am

I didn’t even have to say: No need to explain, I understand. It was in his look — Look after…

Heaven

31 August 2013 9:00 am

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

24 August 2013 9:00 am

I’ve been occupying myself trying to write a long-ish poem. It’s an odd sensation writing a poem. You’re trying to…

Decorous Confessions

17 August 2013 9:00 am

Unexpectedly, he made a sober success with his self-published book of decorous confessions. It eschewed turmoil in the bedchamber and…

Waiting for the Train

27 July 2013 9:00 am

Early spring cherry blossom by the tracks — so prim and so dirty, all at once. The bees must be…

Siempre

20 July 2013 9:00 am

After Neruda Facing you I am not jealous. If you arrived with a man on your back, or a hundred…

Rousseau and the Tiger

13 July 2013 9:00 am

This is the Tiger and this is Rousseau. This is the picture I painted to show That this is the…

how to get a life

13 July 2013 9:00 am

just to tell you there is nothing better almost nothing better than getting into bed in the middle of the…