Tuesday 31 July 2007

Monday 30 July 2007

Moonstone 65




PETRIFIED




Out of earshot


We dance to the


Rhythm of the rain,


Our audience


Turned to stone.






Sunday 29 July 2007

Scar Tissue #17


NOT QUITE DESPERATION

Pen in hand
But no ideas
To spare rib him.
PARK KEEPER
They think
He's strange
Because he
Blows his nose
On flowers.
COPY
Proofreading
Her silk stockings:
He slowly removes
Several letters
From the alphabet.

Saturday 28 July 2007

Iota 42


GREENKEEPER


Even if I were on piecerate

Maybe I'd still divert

Around the crocuses.




Eco Runes, Volume 3






Friday 27 July 2007

Target, Number 5






The Haiku Quaterly, Number 2, Spring 1991


SLEEPING PARTNER


Lying in a bed of Rose's

He found it hard to sleep

And even harder

To be optimistic.



Thursday 26 July 2007

Moonstone 53






Scar Tissue #18


MARGINAL ANALYSIS
I'm only looking
With rose-coloured spectacles
Through this window of opportunity
Because I'm a housebound astronaut.

Jam


THE THINKER
He would only eat
Grapes at a minute
To midnight,
Spitting out the pips
As the time signal
Heralded the hour.
RECCE
If it rhymes,
Shoot it!
Better safe,
Than Ralph.
ALL FOR ONE
She dropped
A stitch in time
To save nine.
The other eight
Had never seen
Her naked before.

Wednesday 25 July 2007

Moonstone 49




JUST ONE MORE




Heavy snowfall


Overnight:


The rhododendron,


A lost sheep.








Songs 18




Eco Runes, Issue Number 4







SKINNY DIPPING






Beneath



the surface,



we're all



the bleeding



same.









Tuesday 24 July 2007

Target, Number 4


DANDELION


One small insect

On the launch pad;

How much further to

The stars from here?





Exile, Volume 9 Number 1, Spring 1997







Iota, Number 9, 1990






Monday 23 July 2007

A Riot Of Emotions, Issue 3


GRAVITY


In a crazy world

It takes less time

For the minute hand

To travel from the hour

To half-past

Than it takes for it

To travel from half-past

Back up to the hour.



Sunday 22 July 2007

Moonstone 47




MAGICK




It's summer again;


There'll be another


Crop of stone circles


In cornfields.






Frontal Lobe 2






Foolscap, Issue 10







Thursday 19 July 2007

Awen, Issue Thirty Seven, December 2005










Presence #11


FORECAST
Today it is snowing;
The postman will only
Bring white envelopes.

Chimera, Number Two


SLOW HOURS
First snowfall of winter;
In shuttered rooms,
It is as if I've already left:
Outside, a gathering witness.

Wednesday 18 July 2007

Sol 30







GENESIS


In the beginning

Eve was the apple

of her father's eye.





Bogg, Number 65


HITCHHIKER
When the moor
Hit his eyes
He put on his
Sunglasses
And turned down
The volume.