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Summer shower

by | Feb 4, 2023 | poemandrecording

Just now, there were two thunderclaps,that prescient pause, and then rain.At first it seemed to be a passing shower,but we thought wrong. The cloudsunburdened themselves. You drankyour coffee, laughing as I ran to rescuenewly pegged out washing. These last few weeks,...
On the First Day

On the First Day

by | Feb 4, 2023 | poem

On the first day of Christmas my new love gave to mea lift to the station, on oat milk skinny latte,a text with smiley faces, and, as I seemed likethe kind of bird who wouldn’t mind, one bird – to mind –for the night. On the second day of Christmas my new...

Last Samaritan in Paris

by | Feb 4, 2023 | poemandrecording

Rene Robert, a Swiss photographer famous for his images of Spanish flamenco stars, died in January 2022, in Paris, after a fall. Nine hours.Not stripped, robbed, beaten this time. Not leftat the side of the road that runsfrom Jerusalem to Jericho.Left for dead. Not...

Osculation

by | Feb 4, 2023 | poemandrecording

We meet by chancein the health food shop,gannets gathering around the lastof today’s bread delivery. The talk, of course,is all about the weather,this heat we still find alien,and the unexpected benison of a summer shower.‘Come into the garden, Mark,’she says she...