There were pearls caught in my hair ...

Seven crows flew over the field -

I saw their black wings -


There was dew still on the grass -

New born wheat -


The world was green -

There were pearls caught in my hair -




Tuesday 7 April 2020


East Stoke
Dorset

Reading a foxed Arrow ....

I'm reading a foxed Arrow -

Bram Stoker's The Lady of the Shroud -

It was a birthday present -

I was a spooky boy, thirteen years old -

Pale and shy in my narrow bed -

Gazing at the lurid cover -

The woman in her grave clothes at the foot of the cliffs -

The wild ancient sea -

Bram Stoker author of Dracula -

The moon in the sky above Palmyra Road -





Monday 6 April 2020

The Old School House
East Stoke
Dorset

Sharing apples with the moon...

There are early blossoms on the tree -

New leaves -

A small bird singing -

A lawn to walk barefoot -

Apples to share with the moon -





Sunday 5 April 2020


The Old School House
East Stoke
Dorset 

This dangerous summer ...

We will swim here, this dangerous summer -

Make our way past the birch trees and blackthorn - 

Stretch out on the warm grass - 

Watch the clouds shape faces in the water - 

Saturday 3 April 2020

East Stoke

Dorset 

Our consolation ...

We saw the pale blueness of new bluebells -

Heard birdsong in the narrow lane -


These were our wild places -

The water meadows, the quiet woods -


Our gentle world -

Our consolation -





Friday 3 April 2020


East Stoke
Dorset 

Jay picking sloes ...

Jay remembers picking sloes -

His dad, home from the sea -

The two of them, picking the November fruit from the blackthorn -

The sloes staining their wary fingers -






Wednesday 1 April 2920




The Old School House
East Stoke
Dorset




A

Apples where I now see the moon .,,

I can see a twilight sky -

The awakening tree -


The new leaves promise summer -

Apples where I now see the moon -






Tuesday 31 March  2020


The garden
The Old School House
East Stoke
Dorset