Caught Call me Ishmael, he said. The name had never mattered. It was the immediacy of it all, creeping through the mouseness of night. Hours to go till light would strain the...

      The Knight He smells Lynx-irresistible: sweat and leather, dirt, blood, incense, and other people’s sweat but when I’m angry he smells of horse shit. He sounds of prayers, sword...

      On my father’s 83rd birthday Unpeg each loop of guy from the tent he saved from his scouting days roll up those hot July nights. Fold away the summer meadow put each petal in a...

    Rain The smell in our clothes, our sheets, The skin itself – Dawn of grey salt sea, the teary veil Of diamond dew, drop upon drop, & Beauty in the glimmering light Scooped up –...

      Do Not Be Afraid Above you, in the sky, a mockingbird attacks a hawk who has flown too near its nest.  The hawk soars up, followed by the mockingbird who taps it again and...

    This is What We Find This is what we find when we go outside: Roads melting in the heat; Half-naked teenage boys kicking footballs in the street; The Indian kids playing cricket in the...

  * They lie with the wild honeysuckle, dip their hair and toes in sunshine. * A sliver of time – her inhale, his blink – silence vibrates around them. * She holds both the clock’s hands,...

      Two Humming Birds I phone the accountant, answer emails, tidy the flat, put papers away in the file where they belong. From my desk, I hear the birds speaking their messages,...

    Artifaction His early days are so far gone that few recall just what a troublemaking teen became this hard and steady man.  They view him only now, see only new routines. Their iron...