I skidded on my Lambretta Near the Champs Elysées Speeding past Citroens, Peugeots, Renaults, you on board, Do you remember emerging From...

For Francis Thompson Here on the green square’s edge At a point of silence listen, a quarrel of sparrows in the covert, a distant mower,...

The nature of the sickness found Ulysses What is the answer …? Does Fear hold the world in balance, Intelligence inform the will? Do we...

Bedside Companion A painting by Klee hangs over my bed, Man, rake and sphere frame a sinister head. A cornered pilgrim digs into the...

Mortar powders the floor, the wall leaves a chink, and a water pipe to clink on to the neighbour cell. Or should I turn to watch the sky,...

Digging in clogged earth, after rain, Mud clings, roots cling, Unlike the mandrake, shriek not, Ribes, ten years in the ground, Beauty...

Thou shalt not make unto thyself any graven image ... Ten Commandments in the chapel, in the apse or on the crossing, are whitewashed or...

It happens from time to time, Listening to other people’s lives, This sudden knowledge of a state You share. You have no common Memories...

With Tess when she was small Down into grassy ditches The soft path tipped us, And hid for a moment the view Of the crown of the hill,...

Pensive and alone I tread the empty strand, Measuring my slow and heavy paces, Searching while intent on human traces In footprints left...

Windows Three faces face outwards, surprised by their master who renders them timeless as they pursue business (no business of ours)....

Today I heard a Quaker say That God reveals Himself. In every avenue of nature. Why, at wide or narrow Meeting roads (where Sons slay...

Below the old church tower Where masons, time and weather Repair the scars of war, Centuries of flaking slabs Huddle, lean and whisper....

Concarneau - August A young woman, a man much older, Both dressed for everyday, He holds her round the shoulder, She him around the waist...

What are these that eye me? Say eyes that canvass ùs; A glare, a puckered gleam, Burn us twofold; cupids leer And squinny; a musketeer...

The chanting drowned the city noise, Challenged the busy town. The marchers stopped, formed lines, But the busy town rolled on. They held...

Dredgers churn the seabed, A sunlit lighthouse gleams On the sea-front where he strolled, After painting some French interior In...

When the Beagle went to sea Fitzroy fixed the route by GMT With John Harrison’s marvellous clock In a box which stemmed the roll The...

Objects carry their history and our own - A drum let’s say, which traversed the Atlantic Or a telescope longue vue, Piercing the...

Quite intentionally made Sense-armoured by their mental trade They view the heavens with aplomb In their high probing towers from Which a...