Out to sea, squalls whip up seahorse waves. On the beach, showers glitter crystal veils in escaped sun rays. Lugworm-casts coil between...

A stick-sketched heart survives the ebbing tide. Scalloped lines, curve, swell and taper rolling over hard and soft sand – fresh wind...

grandmother’s departure voices skim her ears sooth her mind beyond lost meanings and gentle fingers press unpressured love onto her...

Failure I am a snagged stitch – I tug my knitting unravelled to shapelessness I am a blunt pencil – I chew my worn stub taste words I...

Druridge Bay bell notes shimmer hang in the air ring and rhyme and shower shore-wards they ripple out whipped egg-white foam then...

When Pigs Can Fly one day when pigs can fly we’ll be at peace with males ancients who deny we are equal to them assume we...

Wasted Bone-deep aches anchor him to his sour bed. Outside, rainfall makes laundry impractical to contemplate. Once, he recalls, vigour...

Quietus Airborne leaves, twigs and branches buffeted my car. Rain and hailstones lashed my screen splashed curses, You’ll fail, you’ll...

Wordless Poet Rain tracks down my cracked window pane, gusts spray droplets, pattern late summer’s dusty coating. Smears spread down,...

Home Time The winter sun echoes braziers, farewell flares setting low down before teatime’s strawberry jam is spread on buttered...