magpies hop in snow
shifting Rorschach trickery
eager cat’s tail flicks
Poetry?
The snow had come
The sky was blue but there was no sun.
The snow had come.
Thunder like a distant drum.
The snow had come.
I held your hand but your smile had gone.
The snow had come.
We knew the end would not be long.
The snow had come.
The snow had come and all our fears
Our fears that lasted through the years
Our future had now just begun.
The snow had come.
snow blind
snow blind
snow blinded
ways forward lost
a future is waiting
snow settles
snow settles
on my shoulders, my head
snow settles
in my heart and belly fire
snow falls
snow falls
settles
drifts
hope
Pitched valley snow
pitched valley snow shielded
high woods breach perfection
circling birds black above
Resting after training
legs stretching, muscles wire tight
eyes closed in the indoor sunlight
every seven minutes a daffodil crackles open
Valentine rhyme (verse 1)
Don’t you know love’s my new aesthetic
Please don’t say you find it pathetic
When you break my heart with the sharpest words
My love for you is my anaesthetic
I am sea
I am sea. Deep, azure.
Love. Deep as you are.
The language of the now
At the turning of the year
I thought I would write in the language of the now
in the language of the time to come
but then – and now – the past begins to breathe again
and stretches through forever
