1. Travelling/Le voyage
Travelling has always beenune horreur pour moiEven when I was a little girla tummy ache would gnaw at mepour la durée de la traversée from Guernsey to Jersey.
Imagine with my fear of water going off to the New World.I was just 22 when we set out in 1912,didn’t know a thing we didn’t […]
At her leisure Sheopens the curtainswalks out onto her balconyinvites youto have a look.Slowly She risesgracefullyhushes you incharms you.The wind’s rush liftsher summer nightgownover her headslips her sun burnished armsout of slim shoulder strapsand the grace of its fallingleaves you dizzy.That’s when Shegathers you upwhirls you like […]
Simon is a tinystriped orange fire streaking throughthe flat. He shakes
and topples
house plants,defies […]
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Ice Age rolls in hard-hatted driving a bulldozer,
provokes rock-slides as She rams, dislodges,
scoops up and deposits at whim huge stone chunks,
shakes and shoves boulder-sized pieces of mountain.
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She the mighty frozen one flies high
spans ridges forty meters deep, wears Angel wings.
From engorged tips thunders down avalanches as
her pelvis roars and throbs.
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Sun follows Her, faithfully […]
Ravel’s String Quartet in f
second movement
inches me down and across
to the North Side,
already late for a deadline.
Winter slept in this year,
just woke up to its shifty business
of snow-blowing snow,
car exhaust spewing fast and
furious as the wind gusts.
Flashing brake lights
the only flick-flick
of colour in this blustery
end of winter morning.
Grey sky hung over the river valley
with its […]
