The summer garden ....

This winter I will remember the summer garden -

The bright grass - 

The sweetness of its apples -

Picking them from the tree - 

Wednesday 9 September 2020

The Old School House 

East Stoke 

Wareham 

Roofed with stars ...

The wood burning stove waits for winter - 

Its fire will warm these small walls - 

The cold moon will shine in an end of year sky -

Our house will be roofed with stars - 

Sunday 6 December 2020

The Old School House 

East Stoke 

Dorset 

Any moment ....

Any moment my heart may dance - 

Race as fast as a hare across a moonlit hill - 

Run in the space where magic walks - 

Any moment the world may change - 

Saturday 5 September 2020

The Old School House 

East Stoke 

Dorset 

Demi gods in Christchurch Road ...

Here, surely, was a jacket bespoke for Achilles' shoulders -

Heroes might buy their suits in this louche tailors - 

They would walk past vaping lounges -

Consider a kebab -

Pass by tattoo parlours -

Sip a cappuccino in The Crooked Book - 

Here at last they would be clothed in pre worn tweed -

Demi gods in Christchurch Road - 

Tuesday 3 September 2020

Boscombe

Bournemouth 

A nest of bone ...

Soft rain fell upon the quiet trees -

Mist obscured our view of silent fields -

Leaves were already falling - 

The wood evoked stories dear to me - 

The Wind In The Willows -

The Little Grey Men -

The Magician's Nephew -

I remembered climbing trees as a leggy boy -

Mossy bark against my face - 

Feeling my heart beat in its nest of bone - 

Thursday 3 September 2029

Thorncombe Wood

Dorset

Coffee in the Crooked Book ...

I read the first page of The Garden of the Finzi-Cortinis -

The Polish girl made my coffee -

There was spacy ambient music -

I placed my mask upon the table -

There were no knitters here today, or pensive chess players -

I gazed out the window - 

I saw a woman with purple dreadlocks - 

A bravo came in, glowering - 

I remembered the Jewish cemetery in Split -

The pines shadowing the broken monuments -

The cruelty of the sunlight -

Wednesday 2 September 2020

The Crooked Book

Boscombe 

Bournemouth 

 

The Morgan ...

I saw the Morgan parked on the bright grass -

I remembered Jay's friend, the farmer who had a Brazilian wife - 

His Morgan in the icy garden - 

The roar of the engine -

The air of the jewelled city - 

Monday 31 August 2020

Arne

Dorset