Capitalist Realism ...

I'm looking at a photograph of Mark Fisher -

I think about Capitalist Realism -

Of watching Children of Men -

Food banks - 

Men fighting in Spoons 

Mobility scooters - 

Border Police - 

A slogan above a talking head - 

Britain soldiers on - 

Wednesday 29 July 2020

The Old School House 

East Stoke

Dorset 

Reading Sharp Teeth ...

I'm reading Sharp Teeth -

Bloodsongs from the cruel city -

I will run through a moonlit canyon - 

I will change my skin for brindled fur - 

Thursday 30 July 2020

The Old School House 

East Stoke 

Dorset 

On being Pooter ...

I'm reading Diary of a Nobody -

Chortling when young Pitt calls out hornpipe ! -

Or when Pooter buys a pair of stags' heads made of plaster -

They look just the thing for our little hall, and give it style -

Yet, I'm filled with a gentle melancholy - 

Pages from his diary torn out to light a Holloway fire -

The villa with the railway at the back -

The morning bus - 

I think of my own life - 

Those small days - 

The well loved ornaments - 

The ship's crest - 

The Old School House rather than The Laurels

Tuesday 28 July 2020

The Old School House 

East Stoke 

Dirset 

Polar Wood ...

The wind blew against the prow of the wood - 

A green boat on the chalk ridge - 

High above the white horses - 

Nearby the place where the Liberator came down - 

Flying into the hill - 

Bluebells grow in the wood - 

White reefs of wild garlic flowers amongst the blue -

This year, brightness fell upon the hill - 

I could not walk within the wood - 

Breath air scented by blueness -

Wear my shirt of flowers - 

Monday July 27 2020

Polar Wood 

Swyre Head 

Dorset 

Small apples ...

A windfall on lichened stone -

I pick up others blown from the  tree - 

Small apples, not yet grown - 

But perfect, shaped by summer - 

Like holding a promise my your hand - 

Sunday 26 July 2920

The Old School House 

East Stoke 

Dorset 

Small treasure ....

A worn coin - 

A cherry stone - 

Memories of a fragrant summer -

A brown body in a linen dress - 

Cigarette smoke - 

The radio playing in a blue car - 

Saturday 25 July 2020

The Old School House 

East Stoke 

D6

Chapman's Pool ...

We watched the mist come from the sea -

We felt the air grow chill -

Sea smoke hid Chapman's Pool - 

A pale silence fell upon our narrow stair -

Friday 24 July 2020

Chapman's Pool

Dorset