2019

Lost and found

Out on a limb,like desperate travellers looking for somewhere to staylike lonely shepherds in the darklike a young girl suddenly with childlike wise men laughed at, following a wild idea we are lost in a shapeless worldwaiting for something to…

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Edge of eternity

I stand on the edge of eternity:a door opens, and I look back at the universe,which sparkles and throbs with life I know I must not touchthe angel at the doorof creation If I do, I will have to go…

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When my father was alive

Sixty years on, the trainsstill run at the bottom of my garden. I return, expecting to seeuprooted rails, something for walkers,a crazed cycle path,but I hear the train, and I seethe track, though the meadows it ran throughhave been shaved…

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Yesnaby

Travelling back through the centuriespast standing stonesand hollow hungry mounds,we arrive at Yesnaby, where cliffs and castlesfall into the sea,  waves crash recklessly ineating away at what is unseen,giving us no warningthat soon we will be crashing toostruck down by a…

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This is not home

Sun peppers the sea as we step like ghostsdown from the dark gallerieswhere the blood-red line between beauty and terroris sometimes visiblebehind the writing on the wall Disintegrating tree-stumpsmark the ancient quaylong sucked away We, lost children senton a forgotten…

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