I think of you as a hare -

Running across a hillside - 

Your wounds of memory - 

Lost in the joy of running - 

Portland

December 2024

Hunched over iconic vinyl -

They remember Goldsmiths - 

Being skinny and dancing - 

The beautiful anguish of the song - 

Old Poole

December 2024

Knocking on scarred doors - 

Glimpsing a torn sofa -

Drawn curtains

A dog barking somewhere - 

Swanage

December 2024

 I sat with the comrades, Crop Circle in my glass -

Talk of Syria under the low ceiling -

My eyes drawn to Annika's stockings - 

Her red lips and mocking smile - 

The Dolphin

Weymouth

December 2024

Weymouth noir

It was as though I were in a film, an edgy noir - 

The man wearing a long coat, the young woman - 

The two dolphins on the wall -

Weymouth

December 2024

A blinded god

This head - 

That of a blinded god - 

Filling the air with its silence -

Dorset Museum

Dorchester

December 2024

Looking at a painting by Alfred Wallis

Like lookimg into a dream -

At at tall ship, snaring the wind - 

Its hull a thin blade - 

Slicing the waves, one by one -

Dorset Museum

Dorchester

December 2024