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Tuesday, 4 March 2025

Heads on the lake

Mallards in flight

The round bird spreads its wings

Over the Daughters of Uranus


The rippled water

Is sliced beneath a sun shone dust cloud sky


It is warm sat on the banking

The ducks quack and ruffle malodorously


Life does not wear as well

As the words 

Of wasted afternoons



Monday, 3 March 2025

Two heads

Umbilical chord - could it be true

Two heads are better than one

Co-joined inspirations


Don't go there, the ugliness overtakes me

And maybe

Look, don't read any more

You can't touch stuff nowadays


And without that humankind doesn't mean anything at all

Umbilical chord or not



Sunday, 2 March 2025

Head lines and patterns

Into the garden, the garden out of season

Back-along; the swirls, the paisley

The Gaelic confessions


With the accordion

Foot tapping

On the boards under canvas


By the bar stool

In the smoky haven

Outside of the gardens


Not now though

Today we are in search of

A more open enquiry


To reach a past time

Or a delusion not yet measured



Saturday, 1 March 2025

TĂȘte avec le fruit

Fruit face; I've wanted to say that for a while

Not that your necklace is unbecoming

But with asparagus tips, tonight's no night for slumming


Twigs laced; I've not told the whole story

But with twelve photographs of your head, organically immersed

You've given us all something to think on, or otherwise disperse



Friday, 28 February 2025

Head of house

House without doors, house without windows

House with no one inside or out


House, made of thorns, a protection of sorts

Or a suggestion


That home is all we have to cling to

Or that home is all we have

In our struggle to get away