Poetry

Cool wind flowsMy hair tinglesRefreshingly so This poem was first composed in 2017 and is published here for the first time.

Soft blades highFingertips do caressSpring today This poem was first composed in 2017 and is published here for the first time.

Branches snapped, confiscatedSoil eroded, stolenUnwavering, undefeated This poem was originally composed in 2017 and is published here for the first time.

Not you wayNot your timeNever more This poem was originally composed in 2017 and is published here for the first time.

Boundto its orbit isthe watch hand This poem was originally composed in 2017, but was unpublished till now. It has been changed in formatting from the original.

Cool fireballs lickingThe sky theseAutumn trees This poem was originally composed in 2017.

At home here’s a little A5 Clairefontaine notebook in pink that’s shelved among a lot of other archived notebooks. It’s worn and just over half full, and across its silky lined pages are all of my earliest poems written in a rainbow of fountain pen inks. Those early poems were full of getting out all … Read more A short text goes a long way: revisiting my micro-poems