Dust if you must, but wouldn’t it be better To paint a picture or write a letter, Bake a cake or plant a seed, Ponder the difference between want and need? Dust if you must, but there’s not much time, With rivers to swim and mountains to climb, Music to hear, and books to read, […]
Vanishing act
Love, they say. Whether it’s the sneaky, while-you-were-looking-elsewhere kind Or a thunderbolt that smacks you And leaves you reeling like walking into a door in the dark, It arrives – a huge and solid thing Immovable and permanent Stone I love you, they say And it’s a fact, like gravity Or the wetness of rain […]
A light in the distance
There was a rainbow across the valley. Today. It started with a colourful blister under the cloud next to the barn. And it grew up, up into the violet grey. A natural pride flag unfurling upward from the pot of gold, And other metaphors. Elsewhere, across valleys in other countries illumination comes from enemy incendiary […]
5 Wednesday
Things there are no words for The exact exasperation of a fly buzz-by again. Jump-scare daylight after a matinee. The beat-beat calm before bad news bites. And when you see your son as a reasonable human being… and quite like him. Someone put sugar in the tea and didn’t tell you, or salt. Wondering […]
