Cheese shop window cat
Seagull versus hermit crab
Skiffs pull through the tide
Poetry?
Siesta breakfast
Siesta breakfast
Cool fresh fruit on hot-slept sheets
Life awakes again
Clouds beyond clouds
clouds beyond clouds
charcoal layers far horizon
pewter smeared across, an artist’s chalk
birdsong breaking silence
Heart
Heart of straw, danger of overexcitement and collapse due to too heavy breathing;
heart of sticks, beware of pick-up artists;
heart of stone, resisting all blandishments.
My heart is meat, hot, red. Warm your hands and your own.
Beach (Dunkirk)
Bullets spit up sand
Hands over ears we cower
No red poppies bloom
Three a.m.
In the darkness there is a light
In the darkness a hand to hold
My heart beats, beats
My heart beats with yours
In the darkness a hand to hold
In the darkness a light
Calton Hill
Tourists face southward
New Parliament, old Palace
Cold volcano looms
Tourists face northward
Across the water Fife shines
Summer rain ends day
Your distant heard voice
your distant heard voice
drifts of smoke in the distance
hearts will be broken
holidays must end
holidays must end
friendship, sun, hope packed away
next year, yes, next year
Poem on coming home from the sea
summer afternoon
sea-fresh skin on scorched salt skin
summer evening, night
