Grey Muse
The nowness of everything
Monday, 28 April 2025
A bright eyed raguzzo
Wallace clasped the football he'd bought in the Piazza Trilussa -
Danced over the cobbles -
A bright eyed
raguzzo
-
We'd heard salsa on the Ponte Sisto -
Soft rain fell -
Trastevere
Rome
April 2025
Thursday, 24 April 2025
Sophie wore her shining hair
I felt as though I were still above the clouds -
Wallace had seen another jet, lost in the blueness of the sky -
Now he ate a noble
gelato -
Sophie wore her shining hair -
Travestere
Rome
April 2025
Wednesday, 9 April 2025
One hundred and eighty
Wallace throws his darts -
His eye is true -
He smiles -
Turns to look at me -
Mimics a fleshy champion of the oche -
One hundred and eighty !
-
Number 53 Royal Avenue
Scarborough
February 2025
Tuesday, 8 April 2025
A different sky
Anne and Sophie sipped coffee in Thackwray and Greensmith -
Shared secrets -
I was back in the North -
Under a different sky -
Scarborough
February 2025
Monday, 7 April 2025
Cast up
We were soon swallowed by the airport maelstrom -
Led by our guide past yawning officials -
Cast up, at last, before our Gate -
Cairo Airport
February
Sunday, 6 April 2025
The last morning
The last morning -
Hearing the wind in the palm trees -
Walking barefoot by a silver sea -
Sharm el Sheikh
February 2024
I walked there still
The gentle Syrian put down his scissors -
Happy
he asked -
I looked at myself in the mirror -
I remembered Egypt -
The ancient sky -
The stars above the sand -
I walked there still -
Yes
I said -
Wareham
April 2025
Friday, 4 April 2025
There were wonders
There were wonders here -
The boy's beautiful golden mask -
The serene face of a god king -
A chariot light as air -
National Museum
Cairo
February 2025
Thursday, 3 April 2025
Dust on the rear window of a car
There had been shining villas -
The Military Academy -
Posters of the General lining the boulevards -
Here, there was a boy -
His apples -
Dust on the rear window of a car -
Cairo
February 2025
Wednesday, 2 April 2025
A gulf of time
Walking past the camel drivers -
Their crouching beasts -
Hearing so many voices -
I stole away -
I stood before a gulf of time -
Reached out for what I knew I could never touch -
The Pyramids
Cairo
February 2025.
Tuesday, 1 April 2025
Being a milord
For one hour I was a milord -
There was dazzling linen, a girl with kohl rimmed eyes -
Waiters moved noiselessly -
The Nile flowed beneath us -
Floating restaurant on the Nile
Cairo
February 2025
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