|
Moss clung tightly to
the cracks in the sandstone wall; I wondered how long it had been there and how
many people had stared at it, ignored it or ev..
|
|
I
watched her while she slept
her
brown paws twitching fast
she
must be running somewhere.
Her
lilac point ears
like
radars, searchin..
|
|
When
the leaves turned,
orange
red
gold
yellow.
We’d
pull the black tarpaulin
from
the little old Fergy.
The
stone for ..
|
|
Your
kind eyes that crinkled,
with
laughter
Your
voice like a happy robin,
small
and loud.
I
remember on the forest,
with
you and..
|
|
I
haven’t seen your colours
You
ask me,
“yellow,
pink or white?”
I
don’t even know
what
roses look like.
H..
|
|
A
puddle mistaken for a pond,
orange
feet splashing, black beads watching.
Amber
setamongbranches, dark fingers slack.
The
new fields tre..
|
|
Crinkled
skin made dents in my palm
as
I clambered higher.
The
golden beech jeered
I
lost my grip,
a
twig snapped beneath my red we..
|
|
Face
twisted in tight knots,
acid
fizzing like Pop Rocks in his throat.
He
spat,
blood
and green hammered the cold grey slabs.
..
|
|
Brown
eyes,
so
loud over the wind.
He
moved in silence.
Poplars
waved,
singing
in harmony.
I
strained to hear.
He
pa..
|
|
The soft white shells lay on
the heap,
‘it’s from the grass snake’
Granny said.
She went in to make toad in
the hole.
..
|
|
|