making grey

making grey
howick domain
morning, 3 april 2014

making_grey
The ‘pie’ in question, as snapped by an errant jazz cat

spilt across
the domain
this morning
a thin low
fog on the other
side of the field
not even up
to the shins
the white of a
magpie in it
matched to it
its black truly
greyed in it
as we did
with crayons
once
a patient scrawl
of white waxing
over the black…
walking on
through it
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tattoo of the muse

tattoo of the muse

Frida-parrots-Nickolas-_Murray

According to the information given on Fridakahlo.org, where this image was sourced, ‘Frida drew many self-portraits with her pets and this is one of those and she included her parrots in this painting. When this portrait was painted she was just remarried with Diego but was having a love affair with Nickolas Muray, who helped Frida with her first exhibition in New York in 1938 and was a successful portrait photographer.’ 
your name  a hot needle stitch
			under the skin
in a  m u s cle  of  DESIGN.
details  hinting  f i n e
		as the images the dusk
		 seals on your eye.
for its THERE
   i believe truly 
	we stand.
	   on the crumbling
	BANK OF EVENING
AND  	the stars are the
		Bleeding stems
	          of flowers
                    sheared off by the
	c o o l  blade     of the dark.
it’s these  DETAILS
like   a choreographer’s scribble
	a muddle of difficult STEPS
		and balances
	the precision about
		your name
it’s these details
	journeys
	touches that linger
	    like  j ou rn e y s
i’d have  d r a w n
	within  the blue line
         of a   h e a rt.


july 1988
london

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The music for the reading is from the Kyrgzy pop song ‘Appak suiuu’ (White Love) as recorded by the Kryghz singer, Yulia Ruskaya.  A link to the video is posted here below.

star and moon

star and moon
march 2016

Clair_de_lune_sur_le_port_de_Boulogne
‘Clair_de_lune_sur_le_port_de_Boulogne’ by Edouard Manet, 1868, sourced from Wikiart

star and moon
in a drifted space
the evening cloud
wove round them
star that stood the
full lunar flare
yoked together
bright and brighter
the sea blathered
in on waves
heavy engraved
with silver
the black lithe
between to bash
dulled into sand
lunar flare now
through a prairie
of sky unhindered
that star
still
stood
its
ground

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The music for the reading is from the Andante movement of Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No 4 in G major, Op 58, interpreted here in a 2013 performance by the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra with Michiko Uchida as soloist.