The wave ...

I closed my eyes -

Under my feet were years of prayer -

The choir were singing The Sanctus -

The music was a wave that cast me into heaven -

April 2023

After breakfast ...

Blue bells -

The scent of cut grass -

Sunlight falling on the churchyard -

The fragile shadow of the apple tree -

April 2023

Different shadow ...

Dunlins skittered across the sand -

I remembered the Pilgrims' Path -

The saint's island -

The sea road - 

Julia wearing her blue dress - 

The different shadow I cast then -

April 2023

Yellow dizziness ...

The yellow dizziness of gorse -

Forgetting who I am -

Each moment a golden coin dropped into a deep well -

April 2023

The hours of the night ...

I know all the hours of the night -

The longing for a quiet sea -

To be able to dream on a gentle ship -

April 2023

Gentle light ...

That gentle light -

Late afternoon -

Birdsong in the garden -

Shy dazzle of blossom on the apple tree -

April 2023

Watching Edge of Darkness ...

Black flowers cover a mountainside -

A helicopter is a cruel bird in the sky -

The daughter's ghost -

The father she wanted to be a tree -

The fury of Jedburgh's eye -

Holding up death in both his hands -

March 2023