Saturday 31 October 2015

All Souls Day

up the steps to
look at the devil's claw marks






beyond all the graves cows lying down.





Thursday 29 October 2015

Sunday 25 October 2015

Sycamore Keys / Paul Klee




(Still Life in Width-Stilleben in die Breite)






Friday 23 October 2015

Waves go Sideways




Waves go sideways.
Birds fly backwards.
The October flowers are torn off & blown across the island.



Thursday 22 October 2015

That Lamp of the Possible






Back then, the sun 
Didn't go down in such a hurry. How it
Lit things, that lamp of the Possible.

( Sylvia Plath - Memoirs of a Spinach-Picker )



Wednesday 21 October 2015

Waiting for the Storm


& preparing.


( newspaper from the wall
in a dark corner of the hall )





Saturday 17 October 2015

Mushrooms








Wednesday 14 October 2015

3 Sentences





Waiting for the car to be fixed: there's a low moaning sound.
2 men and a bull appear on the road & go past Scar.
Otherwise it's quiet .





Monday 12 October 2015

They Love the Cut Cornfields





.......Wild geese fly high and symbolise those who live
 far from earthly rank and
follow an ordered life.........

( The Bestiary )




Friday 9 October 2015

Burness Clock


just as the sun was rising


with the young Dalai Lama ( from Kenneth )




Wednesday 7 October 2015

The Geese Flew away



& Dubuffet






Sunday 4 October 2015