How you’ll describe me to your grandchildren I like to make you laugh, but worry that’s not the substance fathers are made of. Tell them I was funny, then, if you like, but don’t be afraid to...

        Vernon Square They’ve posed themselves in favoured spots Around this dour, abortive square That sits beside the King’s Cross Road: An innocence of London drunks. One...

      You decide to make more of your day off not fritter it reading books that half-bore you books celebrated in Sunday supplements books that in five years or maybe ten will...

      Planes over Guernica Lanzarote, Autumn  1937 The artist hides in a cave doesn't sketch bison hunts. His feet crackle on black gravel, rust red rock crowds his head. He goes...

    Stood Here Like A Lemmin’ Rain drops fall like they used to, each one a wet train into an adolescent’s bedroom. Waiting for it to stop, wanting it to start. Borrowed vynl and homemade...

      Hare Dawn. The sky a deep pink, mottled with clouds. Already it’s warm. I roll over and up onto my elbows. Blackbird clucks a scolding and I apologise for intruding into her...

      Locked Out The sun burned orange and its touch Deepened from a careless brush To a firm hold And only you Could hear its groans As it dragged its curtain down the sky The red...

      Skinny-dipping Naked, unseen and alone; a belligerent bullfrog, I squat among reed-mace, amidst a fog of grey gnats. Watching the water for whirlpools, heartbeat, steady as a...