The house near the sea ...

Selsey - 

The house near the sea - 

Trees in the garden -

Stairs to her bedroom -

Sunday afternoon - 

Her dark voice -

My heart racing - 

Her calm hands -

Selsey 

January 2023

Our lives are stories ...

I remembered this road to the wild sea -

It was night -

It was her birthday -

I remember the touch of her tawny skin - 

Our lives are stories -

I was her gift - 

The rain beat upon her window - 

My lips were bruised by kissing - 

Selsey

January 2023

Soft rain ...

The discrete chapel was half hidden by shining trees -

Soft rain was falling - 

The long car whispered past me - 

I heard the voices of the sea - 

More love I said to Jane -

More love -

Worthing 

January 2023

The blueness of his tatoos ...

Waiting for the scissors, I listened to The Smiths -

The chair was empty -

Morrisey sang take me out tonight -

I remember the dance of Lee's scissors -

His gentle voice - 

The blueness of his tatoos - 

Bonds

Wareham 

January 2023 

The rasping shore ...

I heard the sea - 

The wind tore at my hair - 

Kite surfers flew in violent zigzags across the bay - 

On the beach, the spray chilled my face - 

I gulped down lungfuls of salty dizzying air -

The waves fell upon the rasping shore - 

Chesil Beach, Portland 

January 2023

Summer Lightning in my glass ...

I followed the comrades into The Dolphin Hotel -

I sat in the low ceilinged bar, Summer Lightning in my glass -

An incendiary newspaper folded in my tweed -

Truth burning on my tongue -

Weymouth 

January 2023

Beguiled by freeview ...

I'm shamelessly watching early morning TV - 

Sipping coffee -

Beguiled by freeview -

January 2023