Wednesday 29 December 2021

 bank holiday bins 

dog shit and broken umbrellas 


merry detritus

 it is dawn

and now the wind is rising


it is raining


but still there is the music


in the closing of my eyes

 how cruel it seems

the blue leaving of the sea

from blurred harbours

Tuesday 28 December 2021

Sunday 26 December 2021

 five haiku for dawn


that moment in

the silent waiting for dawn

peace indeed


out of the black

black trees brutal in the dawn

of a bruised sky


dawn

my reflection dissolves 

into something else


my cat and i 

as dawn breaks over us

like gentle music


un-startling-ly

the night slowly slips away

in the breath of dawn

Saturday 25 December 2021

 at the copulation

of the right and left hemispheres 


the nose for a poem

 christmas morning 

two leaves left on the plum tree


promises promises


Friday 24 December 2021

 christmas eve rain

the wood pigeons are preening 


in the silver birch

Wednesday 22 December 2021

Tuesday 21 December 2021

Friday 17 December 2021

 the children waited

for the Punch and Judy show

it never arrived

Tuesday 14 December 2021

Sunday 12 December 2021

Friday 10 December 2021

Thursday 9 December 2021

Wednesday 8 December 2021

Sunday 5 December 2021

Saturday 4 December 2021