Sometimes when I miss you   I buy bananas and I don’t mind if they’re unripe and stick to the roof of my mouth.  I picture you - empty purse in one hand, birthday bunch for...

    Insistent Camel Ends up, I am left with him. He spits, too. But neither of us has much say in the matter. I pack a block for climbing onto him; he lifts his chin and shoulders his...

  When you were small I was a pig that rolled in mud and a fence to keep horses in. You rode the alligator and laughed down asphalt double whees. Frosty smoked a hammer then. God made little...

     Food Match   We recommend that Zaleo be served between 14 and 18ºC. Why not sip it leisurely on its own or pair it with tasty Spanish tapas, especially cheese or Ibérico ham?   It...

    On Twitter after Kenneth Koch Jokes on Twitter Mostly I am with the man who said: ‘Missed the dawn chorus. Please retweet.’ Mornings on Twitter Are wasted mornings Poetry on Twitter...

      What is coming? Regarding the sweet potatoes on the wall; consider the texture of their knobbly skin and knowing eyes against the pitted stone; when a rough boy bounces out, bat...

      Boy Out picking gooseberries her fingers encased with possibility my mother goes. Beneath her striped shirt she carries in her small frame this thing called boy. Neither short...

      Mother     As its representative on earth she sets the lemon meringue onto the cloth - its perfect roundness and snowy peaks.   She divides it up with the cake knife, cuts...

      Busy at the office It’s wet.  The car’s stopped in a layby.  Dad’s left on the engine.  The wipers go backwards and forwards.  We’re under a tree, it’s windy; the rain seems to...

  Sister:   A passing through, a revisiting, a pack carrier, a ship’s hold that exactly fits your past, a hide, a shelter, the mouth empty of cadence, how vowels fall soft like meadow...