Gerald Parker : Writing

Paperweight

Paperweight

A Poem by Gerald Parker


I passed it round the class: a piece of Roman pottery; expected them to gasp, to marvel at something so old: part of a handle, red fired clay with tra..
Sea View Luxury Retirement Apartments

Sea View Luxury Retirement Apartments

A Poem by Gerald Parker


We have so much to be so grateful for:another day is passing, after another dayof sitting looking out through the window,and it is all paid for, and a..
The Grove

The Grove

A Poem by Gerald Parker


The grove was the best location the gang hadfor reshooting sixpenny matinées -holidayfuls of Tommy’s Revengeand Escape from Stalag Luft I..
Conference

Conference

A Poem by Gerald Parker


They gave us statistics in the morning,overhead transparencies,topographies of adolescent cancer.Landmarks of suffering were mere microdots on a map;g..
The Sunshine Room

The Sunshine Room

A Poem by Gerald Parker


Two Days at Barts Hospital, LondonDay 1“Morning! I’m the registrar.”(…. this is worse than the butchery at Smithfield!Coming ..
Pinochet and Foie Gras

Pinochet and Foie Gras

A Poem by Gerald Parker


The dinner was in my honour,he said, for the visiting Englishman.French exchange in eighty-eight.Jean-Pierre's friends includedanother smallholder lik..
Trucker

Trucker

A Poem by Gerald Parker


He must have beena thunderinghighway-truck of a man;he filled the screenlike he'd filled his cab,but talked much smaller now;his photogenic sorrowdrew..
The Cruise of their Lives

The Cruise of their Lives

A Poem by Gerald Parker


There are some who spend their timeobsessing about lifeboats.You see them pacing the deck,counting the lifeboats, checking the ropes,sitting near the ..
Just a note to say ...

Just a note to say ...

A Poem by Gerald Parker


We collected these objets d’art as an investment,a certain elemental evening when the sky wasa Fighting Temeraire - imagine it all ablaze andsin..
Goldfish

Goldfish

A Poem by Gerald Parker


It's quiet - just her muttering and mumblingall day long, and outside, a double-muffledmelange of frosted voices scurrying past.The numbness she has, ..