Poetic Pieces

Equinox, 2025

'The Clear of the Light,' lines 1-8

Iridescent silver hues the bough

As pale lines the grey

Cardigan knights of Doric columns

Maelstrom Maidens light the way

Strangle lead the potter's wheel

Clay the lane to blue

Oak the panel Greek pariah

Cadaver freight the loom

Extracts taken from 'Noachis Terra: Poems from Planet Mars.'

'The Marsh Harrier, The Sea Eagle, and The Revolver' (lines 1-6)

Stuck fast steadfast loose fastener

Belt buckled hand fist battle cart dust

Circle of berries and roads for tea

Sit upon an alpine bench

Set the kettle whistle

To the marsh harrier

From Noachis:

'13 Ways to See,' (lines 1-8)

There are 13 ways to see a blackbird -

Blue kingfishers through officers' monocles

Starlings waiting for the farmer's gun

Like wooden dollies pegged

Pedestaled washer woman's lines

Listening with ears closed for the click

And the spyglass

Concave, convex, like a thought

From 'Anthems: Poems from the Dark Side.'

'Coppice Moor,' (Lines 1-4)

Red stitches with Chinese silk and

A salad of cries with a lobe 'round the back

Captured by a lens of milky timbre

Where the Incubus raged

Extract:  'Anthems: Poems from the Dark Side.'

'Byronic Catatonic,' (Lines 1-5)

Imagine, if you will, the imagination

In a brown, speckled pot of corned beef hash

Flavoured like a toad in the room

And a garden of secrets, warped by a

Webbed decay of woodchip prisms