'Willow branches graze the grass,
As I sit in the shade drinking tea.
A note from a flute blows clearly,
Mingling with the sound of rain.
I could sit here alone forever,
And still I'd never feel lonely.'
April 03, 2017
March 18, 2017
London Pigeon | #CapturedInWords
London pigeons are a conversation starter But this one is silent Except for the sound of rice hitting stone The fizzy twist of a...
March 04, 2017
My Black Cat | #CapturedInWords
Black cats can be any shape, size, or condition But mine's like a panther Sleek, slender, smooth His hind strong like a...
February 19, 2017
The Verb To Be | #CapturedInWords
This is an apple. Can we (or should we) ever say that 'something is ', if it is not a permanent state of being? In Span...
February 11, 2017
The House by the Sea | #CapturedInWords
I woke from a dream of an old life where I slept in the attic room of a tall, dishevelled town house by the sea. The tired timber fra...
February 08, 2017
Observations from China #5 | #CapturedInWords
I can see it, I saw it, I still see it now. I can't go there, I couldn't, I never will. I will remember it, though. ...
February 05, 2017
To Be A Fig | #CapturedInWords
Dear Mr Lawrence*, None a living thing is forever Better a bursten fig I'd be And be beheld In truthful majesty Than not ...
January 29, 2017
No Blue In Your Eyes | #CapturedInWords
There is no blue in your eyes, really Just the scattering of light Of conversations started And left, unfinished Blue, be...
January 28, 2017
Observations from China #4 | #CapturedInWords
Rummaging through the attic of an old tea office in the mountains, the children followed me around calling out in the local dialect. I ...
January 02, 2017
Just a Thought | #CapturedInWords
Is the ability to 'destroy' my missing piece? Can there be love in destruction? It seduces me in my dreams. Dogs tearing dogs a...
December 29, 2016
On Resolutions | #CapturedInWords
When it comes to making resolutions, there have been many in my time but I'm not convinced that I've completed a single one...
December 08, 2016
We Need a Boatman | #CapturedInWords
Place your brackets around me Around us (And especially around yourself) We'll be safe there On your made-man sun Manacle me ...
November 27, 2016
Observations from China #3 | #CapturedInWords
We scrolled through small villages, never pausing for longer than a moment's thought, succeeded by another, the roadside washing ov...
November 20, 2016
Notes at 6:16am | #CapturedInWords
Last night I dreamt of a burnished American landscape in Fall My reflection hung and pregnant upon my own gaze; A swollen hau...
November 19, 2016
Piaf's Mask | #CapturedInWords
I found your eye, Blue Scratched into my notebook January 2007 Burnt there, lingering With notes on Piaf Her name Scrawled a doze...
November 13, 2016
The Nighthawk | #CapturedInWords
I came to meet a nighthawk As the moon it swelled to its fullest fill Heavy, held aloft on the shoulders of the horizon As it r...
November 06, 2016
Observations from China #2 | #CapturedInWords
Along the snarling mountain roads of Anxi County, pumpkins, gourds, squashes and marrows grew haphazardly; tumbling from shed tops, gna...
November 03, 2016
The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock | #CapturedInWords
Let us go then, you and I, When the evening is spread out against the sky Like a patient etherized upon a table; Let us go, thr...
October 23, 2016
Observations from China #1 | #CapturedInWords
In the office of an old tea factory, the light of the late afternoon reached its arms into the dark space and illuminated that which ha...
September 29, 2016
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