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DOG SUTRAS
DOG SUTRAS Dog Sutras §12we make it homejust as the sundies in its own fire Dog Sutras §13here at the pondthe light swallowsthe huge trees Dog Sutras §14crow jane ladyin your housein the windflying still
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SHIP TO SHORE Here I am, said the old manstill young, trapped betweenship and shore. I understand that we’re always on the gangplank, having just arrived or just heading for departure. There’s always someone to talk to, someone pausing to … Continue reading
DOG SUTRAS
dog sutra §1 leaves turn into butterfliesthey’ve understood that as winter bitesthey might fly away dog sutra §2 leaves go to earthberries hanglike bright bells dog sutra §3 the two of usyou runningquicksilverinto your futureme as slowas one step forwardand then … Continue reading
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DOG SUTRAS §1.
The Dog Sutras and their accompanying photos all derive from walks with Lupin across and around the fields, meadows and woodland near our home in North Hertfordshire. §§§ leaves go to earth berries hang like bright bells
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EXHAUSTED CLICHES AND MIXED METAPHORS
‘Songwriters are not poets, Or songs are not poems, I should say. In fact, songs are often bad poems. Take the music away and what you’re left with is often an awkward piece of creative writing full of lumpy syllables, … Continue reading
FLIGHTPATHS – POEMS ABOUT AEROPLANES
We all of us – well, many of us – carry through from childhood certain key interests or preoccupations. Living under what was then the London Airport flightpath, I grew accustomed to seeing at comfortable height pretty much everything that … Continue reading
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DREAM DAD – a live reading.
DREAM DAD by DICK JONES … Continue reading
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LOCKDOWN
LOCKDOWN Back to the beginning, then. Who lives here still? Some shepherd swain chewing on a stem, staring over the lonely treetops? Fool if you expected silence, or thought that the trees would be empty. But the contrails have gone … Continue reading
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