Monthly Archives: October 2005

if i sat every afternoon for two years in the same corner where you sat, i could not draw down such shapes as regularly visit you from the dark and turbulent air like the kettle of questions on the boil … Continue reading →

For years she sold cabbage. Red cabbage, green cabbage, Garlic and ginger, big white radishes, beetroot and celery – only certain kinds of vegetables – cut with a big knife on a board at the back of her stall. She … Continue reading →

I needed to know exactly where I was going. And then I remembered why. Always, going to new places, I gave you the grid-reference. You tracked me from base with your Daily Mail map. There is no longer any need. … Continue reading →

“Know when to end a poem, when to end a love affair….” A child is howling somewhere. Someone is in shock. But there is also someone outside the back door looking up at the starriness of the night sky, wondering … Continue reading →

Days of long light, Here, between green hills, A place where water Names the stones and trees. Ancient harmonies sing from the rock – Keys of sparkling mica, quartz and schist. Opening out, the patterns of my mind Shift, slow … Continue reading →

The tide is running out on the beach of who I am. The sand is exposed to the sky. I feel the wind and the sun, the water and the cold. I am the ridges left my rippling water. 29 … Continue reading →

I want to know in my bones the earth I am. I want to pour myself into all the crevices like water. I want to be consumed by the fire, until only ashes remain. I want to be free, like … Continue reading →