through ruins

through ruins
june 2021

were more than enough to start with

the ruins
were more
than enough
to start with,
stones,
bricks
dislocated
in scatters
across
divided
earth,
they turned
to dust in
the hand,
still we
wetted that
stirred with
trowel and
sculpted
it into walls
of houses,
streets we
planted
in moments,
some green,
some rose,
some grey
as old news
of a ‘new
world
order’,

silly

silly
        for KK
        14 august 2019

The stone fell away…a Weathercat snap in time

however
said,
your leaving
was a stone
across the sun
the birds not
knowing whether
to cry in the
dawn or dusk,
now at your
returning
holy
silly
blessed
i’m over
the moon,
not caring
night or
day
am lunar
for you

The music is from a recording by Midori (Midori Goto) of J. S. Bach’s Chaconne from Partita No. 2 in D minor.

purring

purring
    4 july 2021
     riverside

Smoothing off the uncertain edges of things with a purr…

from on
my knee
you saw
from the
balcony
the tui
in the
top
branches
against cloud
bobbing his
frill at the
throat with
beat of
note,
a tumble
up and
down the
stairs of
song,
the man
in oilskins