Summer nights
Scarce —my summer darknesswith velvet handsperfumes the night;not even silentit pretends to mournan absenceof the glowthat never leaves; by sea at midnightthe moon’stoo pale to sendits silver into the waves,as […]
Spring Girl Magic
The sun is an oyster with turmeric hands,as the midmorning spring un-ribbon her hairto let tresses, as water, trickle through sandand merge with the restless waves of the sea,as apple-bloom […]
The name of Ogg
Rooks in flocks forge homeward,fresh-snapped twigs in beaksforest watches, silent, lost for wordsonly Owl knows the secrets seeked.Moon girls dance, tiptoe across bogsin his cave the lonely troll-boy weepsfor being […]
Mid May Summer
The weekend passed with a foreboding taste of summer. The blackthorn dropped its white veil of white bloom and the ground under the forsythia is yellow from fallen flowers. My […]
Behind me
That last time we tried, pretending, hand in hand, in strained silence walking to the lake. The birches dressed in sheer green with a white carpet of wood anemones underneath […]
