Familiar

So that is the holiday over

That is the holiday done

It’s been an odd old time

I fear for my oldest son

Yet how might I have lived

In a small house, no work

Nothing much to aim for

But pastimes & a dog to run

That we don’t communicate

Itself a self evident truth

I broke him as a young boy

My parting was a loaded gun

Lust took me from his mother

My ambition; to set myself free

All I wanted wasn’t enough

After the rough I chased the fun

He doesn’t like what he sees

Thinks I’m full of fancy stuff

A tuppence a’penny millionaire

See, it is his clarity that I shun

This is a poem from Vagaries:

Love of The Key to Room 149

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Wim Wenders

Darling that was

From a long time ago

So long ago

I don’t remember

It was before

The Jews Harp

& the judge you told

You don’t remember

He takes a Polaroid

Yet knows for sure

It will not show

What he sees at all

He makes

A telephone call

To go nowhere

Except on the road

This is a poem from Vagaries:

Love of The Key to Room 149

Available as ebook from Kindle
or as a homemade print book and audio cd from  poetryshop

Spring

There was no frost

For some reason

The minus five degrees

Did not materialise

We are sheltered

For what purpose

Surely not

To burn the toast

This is a poem from Vagaries:

Love of The Key to Room 149

Available as ebook from Kindle
or as a homemade print book and audio cd from  poetryshop

Removal Man

I have no connection to that house

Other than to remember the light bulb

That I broke off his lamp-stand, with my bare hand

Which came through my inexplicable, yet 

Abjectly anxious desire to leave your house quickly

The broken bulb then, and the return of Italo Calvino's book 

Six Memos for the Next Millennium

Which I gave to you, but asked if I could reclaim it

Along with an introduction to philosophy - 

Think by Simon Blackburn, if my memory serves me

This is a poem from Vagaries:

Love of The Key to Room 149

Available as ebook from Kindle
or as a homemade print book and audio cd from  poetryshop

Insight et al

I walk across my home town

Between two drawing offices

There isn't a real desk space for me in either

My old boss Roger wants me to design

An aircraft refuelling system

I tell him it's all about

Finding the right operational staff

The second office is really busy

A meeting of everyone is called

I see this as an opportunity to slip out

A fox approaches me on the petrol station car park

It bears its teeth and harasses me

I shout and wave a stick but I am frightened

A big dog grabs the fox

Eventually it works the foxes head between its jaws

Before determinedly and manically crushing

All life out of the bereft wild animal

It was a dream that I couldn't leave

In the same way I couldn't leave

Another work dream earlier in the week

In another of tonight's dreams I was explaining

The solution to a control system problem, & even 

Though I knew the fix was to move the measuring

Device nearer to the process being measured 

I had doubts that it would be correctly implemented

It seems to me the dreams are about a lack of control

Doubts about the resolution of issues

I am neither able to complete a task, or walk away

In the morning I find that a Fox in ones dreams means:

Insight, cleverness, cunningness and resourcefulness

This is a poem from Vagaries:

Love of The Key to Room 149

Available as ebook from Kindle
or as a homemade print book and audio cd from  poetryshop