Onto iridescent clamouring waters we ran, floated like a conjurer’s shabby trick until gravity could not sustain the memory of rain, and thoughts that stick of falling by a frying pan to sing a rare song taste of earth and … Continue reading Downhill, Far Away
She is a vortex of sound, As the sun paints the tops of tree And a bird struts confidently on the lawn Now all is silent, Save my rattling breath Not the way an Old Man once struggled I’m losing … Continue reading Anthem for Vortex
A little note came up on this website today, congratulating me on 6 years of blogging here. I had not realised I’d been doing this for so long. I went back and looked at my first ever post, which you … Continue reading 6 Years on WordPress: His Final Life
Five years will become fiftyFive hundred,Eternity.What are you asking of me?Where are you hiding?Nothing is much differentI wake and put on a cloak of diffidenceto a world that was always burning.I am not sad, you aremade of light, untouchable like … Continue reading Anniversary 5
If I end up dying of cancer halfway across the world and my wife doesn’t move to be with me…what would that say about her? What would it say about the husband that I was, for that matter? Continue reading Anniversary 4: Resuscitation
Fifty thousand green umbrellas And water as clear as a babies eyes in the dawn. An old wooden balcony beneath mountains and optimism and the way that my parents looked in love then They way they didn’t later, arms crossed … Continue reading Green Sea
It’s three years ago that you died. I can’t believe it’s been so long, and how different the shape of my grief is now. For too … Continue reading Anniversary
Blaze of Obscurity 