The World of Stonehenge Exhibition at the British Museum. Visit 16.3.22

18th Mar 2022.Reading time 1 minute.

This huge, black room
lined with cases filled
with uplit remnants
of our past

2021 is over

3rd Jan 2022.Reading time 1 minute.

Warden Point Cumbersome yearcome to rest uponthis quiet beachat world’s end reachhere we meet under soft grey skiespebbles crackle underfoottender glands constrictmy throat the tide is awayreveals expanse of rippled claywhich, each daywashes new fossilsinto our consciousnessshark’s teeth, lobster tailsfishes’ vertebrae people cometo collect these lessonsfrom Father time iron whelk in my palmwho slithered in […]

the cat

18th Nov 2021.Reading time less than 1 minute.

her yellow eyes
lined black
half-closed
glistening

Starlings in November

15th Nov 2021.Reading time less than 1 minute.

I hadn’t noticed the starlings until the moment
they suddenly fall silent

Nourish

2nd Nov 2021.Reading time less than 1 minute.

the trees are letting go their leaves nowscattered offeringsmyriad gifts of foodin delicious hues tomato, tangerine, limesaffron, honey, nut butter peppering the groundwith fallen lightharvest festivalreturned to earth. (Images taken at edibleculture, Faversham)

I am a library

27th Oct 2021.Reading time 1 minute.

I am a library;
there are millions of voices
and stories inside of me
written in code
in every cell

La chispa

22nd Oct 2021.Reading time less than 1 minute.

It’s 5.30am and inexplicably

I am awake

I yield to the conscious realm

put on my cosy clothes

make a fire

cup of tea

My first poetry collection in print

21st Oct 2021.Reading time 1 minute.

I debated for a while whether to self-publish or play the traditional game of submitting work to publishers, but I’m too impatient for that. Plus I have friends who were waiting for me to put together a collection… so hell, I just did it. Being a graphic designer meant that laying out a book wasn’t […]