(2011)
Brings back the sweetest of memories.
Poised to pounce, behind a filmy glaze, a blackness, filled with everything, and nothing.
Tempered breaths, lids sink, sealed, Solid spine, grounded deep. Hubbub hushed,
Behind a blinking twinkle, difference disappears, swirling midst an onyx cave, masked, like moon from sun.
Synchronised elementally, attuned thoughts, raging solemnly. Ripping through trees, throwing leaves,
Mysterious, midnight messenger, bearing life’s flare, emerging, swooping,
Soft morning rays, pierced the pan… Dimmed by jack-frost’s rain. Accompanied by a tabby cat, the Tailor snipped and snapped, on show - in the window.
Cloaked in cloud, milky fullness, gleams but is not seen. A silvery shepherd,
Fondest memories edges blurred - dimpled bottles, emptied of their tricolour liquid, shuffling their wonky necks
Swathed in murky grey, undulating, almost weightless, sounds drowned, submerged in subtle
Static. White noise. Deafening silence, overflows; trickling webs
Slipping, slowly, Struggling not to fall into dreaded dreamland. For some; a happy time of fantasy.
You sit and count my freckles. As we lay in dream-filled daze, in dappled shade, beneath a leafy bough. An infinite task in the midst of s…
Palpitation pressure flow. Insides flinch, break-beat, grow. Clotted frizzies,
Briny swells, surge upstream. Mighty torrents cascade; rushing,… Flood through clenching seams. Tumbling power, beautifully gleams… Thunderous, undulating,
Amidst the woody opalescence; clammy, creeping undergrowth, and stooping heavy boughs, they wait. A gradually growing blanket