No Rest
Do not tarry for too many minutes below Chanctonbury’s decimated circle of silvered-skin beech trees They were planted without regard for any long-term fixing agreement… Read More »No Rest
Haunting
Hamilton Place
The tin top cottages
should be haunted – but there is no ghost –
no made-pail Hoogstraten …/
Ghost Holes
This bar’s serving hatch is always left agape –
tonight I see it is a varnished picture frame
holding unfair perspectives of the pirouettes
of the not-Degas barmaids in uniform black …/
Ghosts
They say that there is a ghost
in every old house
That frigorific forms will rise
to meet with warm blood
and damp bones …
St. Anne’s Hill
My father died
aged fifty-five,
I was aged
twenty-three,
he slipped away
at St. Peter’s
…