After the A Train

I woke up thinking of you -

How you wore a long red dress -


How I kept looking at you -

Unable to look away -


Your arms were bare -

Your smile was my world -


When we hugged each other I said how lovely you were -

When you asked if I would still swim with you I said yes yes -

Swanage 

September 2026 

Leaves falling from a golden tree

The quartet is playing Bye Bye Blackbird -

It's slowly getting dark -

The notes of Rob's saxaphone are  like leaves falling from a golden tree -

The Mowlem 

Swanage 

September 2026

A thread of love

We held a thread of love -

Remembering the young beautiful god -

Saying his name -

Writing it in our hearts -

Weymouth 

August 2026 

The Play Park

Tattooed dads watch their children on the swings -

Nanas hunch their shoulders against the wind -

The slow river winds past the Leisure Centre -

Clouds cover the sky -

5 Rivers

Salisbury 

August 2026 

Sunday with Jake

Still dizzy from the roundabout, Jake heads for the slide -

He calls out I can do it myself -

Whooping as he slides down -

He's wearing his spiderman sliders -

His world is young and full of joy -



5 Rivers

Salisbury 

August 2026 

More love

Walking barefoot in the garden -

My shirt wet from the rain -

Picking up windfalls -

I remembered all my summers -

How more love will cure a broken heart -

The Old School House 

East Stoke 

August 2026 

Beyond the bijou estate

Walking past a house called Tamarisk -

Pristine Volvos -

Beyond the bijou estate, the deep blueness of the waves -

 The ribbed sand -

The white bone of the hill above the bay -

Ballard Estate, Sheps Hollow 

Swanage 

August 2026