Son Of A Firecracker
She’d leave me in a motel room, toy tipper truck and a dream of the ocean for company as…
The Women and King Harold
Ubi Harold interfectus est … – Bayeux Tapestry Along the margins of embroidery when the women grew bored with…
How the Ghosts Get Out and About
It’s easy to assume the ghosts travel through London on the tube – they seldom do, preferring to avoid…
The Man Who Disliked Crocuses
My neighbour had a dislike of crocuses, though he loved gardening. The leaves were a mess; hung about too…
The Windows
The windows’ crispy cataracts conceal a small garden where the tickled chemistry of frost has electrified the few shrubs…
Easy Rider
Translated into English by Rimas Uzgiris i will ride the blazing bus in the dark through the station of…
Solomon’s Stables
Caressing mare’s ribs, the master coaxes the foal into odd environs as sibling colts munch fresh hay, sifting after…
The Journey
i.m. Charlotte Annie Bodsworth Grantham: 1944 The long road from the farm was longer then, the chickens fed, breakfast…
The Rhyme of the Reddleman’s Daughter Part III
For mile on mile, and mile on mile, echoing around,
shrunk spine rattling coughs,
and a moaning helpless sound.
Piazza di Spagna, 1860
On the Spanish Steps there sprawls in original sun Il Padre Eterno with his rusty coat, His bright paternal…
Elterwater Rain
When I came to write of it there was no rain, just the last of its ectoplasm shivering in…
Street-Combing
for O Sun’s setting behind us at 5 pm; a turquoise stripe below a rain front strokes in sudden…
The Transfiguration
There are no adjectives to describe the whiteness of the light emanating from Christ as he levitates above the mountaintop:…
Song of Barbed Wire
I’ve heard the red deer of Eastern Europe climb with their fawns up rocky hills to graze on poor…
Three Poems
Two New England Poets Now in my seventies, I spent most of my twenties in New England. I made friends…
The Wretched Web
A web of sexual entanglements invisible when soaked in daylight. Silver lace glistening in the moonlight, a life of…
Palazzo Vecchio
Watch where compass quivers, pendulum swings as time in its magnificence betrays all things with proof stands aside in shadow,…
Three Sonnets
These three sonnets are taken from ‘Sketches from the Sierra de Tejeda’ (in Andalusia), a sequence of forty-one sonnets John…