Poetry
For Elaine
To a Sewist, with thanks. This is just to say ... . (Pictures to follow once they have been released…
April and Silence: Three and a Bit from Tomas Tranströmer
Politics without mercy, demonic world events, power without responsibility, nature takes flight. National Insecurity The Under Secretary leans forward and…
Coastal Command
My uncle Lawrence Holford was killed by a Bristol Beaufighter. Maybe two. My father worshipped his older brother Laurie, and…
An Abundance of Caution
In an abundance of caution, Density reducing, I stay at home. I keep my social distance Leave bleach and hand…
Gin: Mother’s Milk or Hair Tonic?
One thing always leads to another on the intertubes and this particular ravel started with my friend David Nice. David…
Clearing the Clutter
These days find me busy clearing and chucking, sorting and sifting, storing and saving. Three truck loads of stuff cleared…
The Irish Airman and Time for a Flu Shot
Yeats wrote the poem "The Wild Swans at Coole" (see Game of Swans) in 1916 /17 when he was staying…
Decomposition
Decomposition I have a picture I took in Bombay of a beggar asleep on the pavement: grey-haired, wearing shorts and…
Game of Swans
A group of swans is a wedge when they're in flight, likely because of the shape a group of swans takes in…
For No Good Reason
I love this poem by Hans Magnus Enzensberger. It's a commentary on the fact that - even in the darkest…