COMMON DOES YOU NO JUSTICE ALDER Well, at least maddened Sweeney had a good word to say for you: ‘Delightful is thy…
OLD APPLE For eighty years it stood Weathered, withered At the far end of our garden, Keeping watch.…
THE GRAVEYARD ASH I’m watching you. Meeting. Singing. Canoodling. Arguing. You’re small, but infinitely beautiful. I yearn to run.…
YNYS ENLLI APPLE TREE Flat to the salt hewn brick, The Mother tree calls Into the lighthouse’s foghorn yawn, Past…
DAY’S END AND THE BANANA TREE, JAKARTA (AKHIR HARI DAN POHON PISANG, JAKARTA) Wearied light pushes the thick air past competing calls to prayer and motorway roar while stub-tailed…
THE TWT* BEECH I have watched the see-saw of lives across time. First, the dare-you children scaling my steely…
BEECH (FAGUS SY LVATICA) I can’t creep up on you Beech Tree, You hear me scrunch through decades of disintegrated…
HIGHER CONSCIOUSNESS It amused my daughters that a town in distant south-east England shared the name we gave…
THE STRONG AND SENSITIVE TYPE I made my mark on them. Impressed by centuries, catkins and burs, The Borough of Stockport…
RHAMNUS CATHARTICA Ingleton, Delamere Hay, Dean Road trips Boat trips Hikes Broken but looking up Scarce and still…
FAMILY TREE Three children, from days gone mouths stretched wide in glee Scattered, posing for the camera on…
DAKPLATAAN, NORTH HOLLAND Back in Aprilyou seemed almost dead smooth skeleton starfish balancing on a single foot Stretching four…
THE LAST OLD ELM You stand Raking skywards As generations To and fro To and fro Absorbed in daily busyness…
DRIFT, WOOD Hiding in plain sight, nettle-bound at a crossroads Some flowers remain, drifting like smoke on dead…
