The CEO

A charming wordsmith -

Using his beguiling smile -

Each of his sentences a silken net -

The Mowlem 

Swanage

October 14 2026

Breathless from the waves

I said I would never have done this without you - 

Swimming in the rain -

An October sky - 

A sea fret hiding the chalk hill - 

Watching you get dressed -

Deftly hiding your lovely body beneath the towel -

Coming into my life like this -

Breathless from the waves -

Swanage 

October 12 2026 

The wretched hours

Swimming with you -

Forgetting the dark reefs of the night -

The wretched hours - 

My dreams snatched away -

October 12 2026

A cruel hireling

Night -

Like a cruel hireling -

Waits by my door -

Old School House 

East Stoke

October 11 2026

Your gaze holding past and present

In one of your paintings, you sit like an empress upon a throne - 

Grave and watchful -

Wearing a crown - 

Your gaze holding past and present - 

Your heart the memory of wounds - 

The Lighthouse

Poole 

October 10 2026 

Jake draws his house

Jake drew his house -

He flourished his coloured pens -

I saw his world as he saw it -

There was nummy -

There was daddy -

There was Number 73 - 

Salisbury 

October 9 2026 

Meeting Betsan on the beach

Betsan saw us on the ribbed sand -

As always louche and elegant -

Greeting us with her marvellous gravelly voice -

Wearing a boiled wool jacket -

It was my mother's she said -

We were going for a swim under a  mackerel sky -

She smiled at us as we walked, slender and almost bare, into the waves -

South Beach

Studland 

October 8 2026