Poems
Love-making in Water
Seals — well, they rhyme with steel — can stand the cold. And they can even dive and mate at…
Siempre
I am not jealous. If you arrived with a man on your back, or a hundred men hanging in the…
Siempre
I am not jealous. If you arrived with a man on your back, or a hundred men hanging in the…
Siempre
I am not jealous. If you arrived with a man on your back, or a hundred men hanging in the…
Walking
One moment basking in the sun, the next knee-deep in snow astonished at the way these tracks must have filled…
Walking
One moment basking in the sun, the next knee-deep in snow astonished at the way these tracks must have filled…
Walking
One moment basking in the sun, the next knee-deep in snow astonished at the way these tracks must have filled…
Outplacements
He said, it’s a structural workforce imbalance and I thought where’s the scope for a man of your talents? He…
Outplacements
He said, it’s a structural workforce imbalanceand I thought where’s the scope for a man of your talents? He said,…
Outplacements
He said, it’s a structural workforce imbalanceand I thought where’s the scope for a man of your talents? He said,…
Wind
Invisible hand that jangles the lantern over the porch and tells the leaves on the pond to imagine they are…
Wind
Invisible hand that jangles the lantern over the porch and tells the leaves on the pond to imagine they are…
Wind
Invisible hand that jangles the lantern over the porch and tells the leaves on the pond to imagine they are…
The Colours of London
(after Yoshio Markino, 1911) Colours of women, a grey-veiled pink, a bloom Fading to yellow, stippled, dust-hung, flecked Soot startling…
The Colours of London
(after Yoshio Markino, 1911) Colours of women, a grey-veiled pink, a bloom Fading to yellow, stippled, dust-hung, flecked Soot startling…
The Colours of London
(after Yoshio Markino, 1911) Colours of women, a grey-veiled pink, a bloom Fading to yellow, stippled, dust-hung, flecked Soot startling…
Seals (Iona)
No angels listen when you cry out here, but seals rise up to see, and criticize perhaps, as you intone…
Seals (Iona)
No angels listen when you cry out here, but seals rise up to see, and criticize perhaps, as you intone…
Cataclysm
It came at last, the letting-go, Up over the hill and down our street — The end of time had,…
Cataclysm
It came at last, the letting-go, Up over the hill and down our street — The end of time had,…
War Stories
The mental battle over Sunday roast: mum, my brother and myself trying our best to look interested, so he wouldn’t…
War Stories
The mental battle over Sunday roast: mum, my brother and myself trying our best to look interested, so he wouldn’t…
The Drowners
They have done this before, the two lovers, each believing the other is drowning – parting their lips as the…
The Drowners
They have done this before, the two lovers, each believing the other is drowning – parting their lips as the…
The Property of Michael Gray, If Found
A sample of things people should know about, or have heard of, whether they’re 12 or not: George Washington, George…
