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TINY SNAPSHOTS OF A CRANE'S LIFE A man goes whistling, A woman without tea; numen shines, House-light is happy. ... (21/12/1971!) In a cheesenet trapped, Twelve little dark fishy things - Their name escaped me! Nettle-fume that curled from webs has met its Angel in an opal Heaven (Ospringe garden 14th August 2001) Low-slung sun, god-gold I.D. disk swings in my eyes, Aten remembers me! All my life I was A winter child; my spring comes, Full moon melting snow Why, why, why? - Swale & Wales Pam Pam Pam! Red May Her second brood My two duvets (15/05/04) Under my toes The new gravel Last year's begonia (16/05/04) Seaside G&T ''Listen - a cuckoo!'' It is two o'clock (16/05/04) Looking for heaven I move, and dream of moving Mountains and thunder (12/08/04-after Keswick) Under my window Chattering, laughing, fighting People and sparrows (13/08/04) Immaculately Turned out now in watered silk At God's beck & call (Stella's ashes scattered in Duddon Valley Sept.04 - 30/09/04) The pink taste - rosehips, luminous quince, clear bright beads of pomegranate Under a full moon My frogs croon - our dreaming doves Mourn transfigured loves Wet cave, frog peeping, Elephant washing - my pool, My piece of heaven (23/4/4) Song Of a light plane - Summer high (16/05/04) My garden Buddha Crowned with a summer goldfinch Now I can meditate (11h45 22/05/04) Our friend's funeral - One butterfly in the sun And purple flowers (29/06/04- Gillingham) In the twelfth autumn Preparing quinces; the breeze, My mother's perfume (October 14th 2004) Autumn. My hair is falling. (3/11/04) Nearly sixty-two, Bemused by bone, dying stars, Dumbfounding I Am (14/11/04) All wrapped up - The first winter drifts Whiten the hall floor. (18/12/04) At sunset, grateful To have been part of this brief Human miracle (25/01/05) Spring tinnitus - rain over lunch, plans, muzak, all Falling on deaf ears (14-16/04/05) Cold May, clouts not cast; One experimental rose Amid the bird scraps (26/05/05) Painting the Chapel - Yet another Monday gone Without Tai Chi (Oct.17th 2005) Drowsy rituals - Scrabble, Astropocket - Unread magazines (Oct.23rd 2005) Am I eating soap? Goat's yoghurt and strawberries This odd June evening (17/06/07) Bluebells! eleven Under my quince - the loved Sun Blessed with a halo (23/4/08-another sun rainbow!) Wind off Great Orme's Head History streams old eyes blue As the Med in May (25/04/08) Just resting is good - Horses nibble each other, My costume waiting (2/5/08 - weary patch before the Extravaganza) Quince blossom, moonlight I wait for his late white car Ghostly, a seagull (7/5/08, c. 22h45) Forty-four summers Remembering your birthday Forgotten pictures (Rob sends my old prints!11/5/08) Blown Ceanothus Blackie is after my worms Digging in blue snow (May 2008 - planting geraniums & lobelias round the front paving) Down by the dead pool Faded confetti - half-term Pantomime wedding The Sunday service - Norman on organ, young Daz On coffee machine (8/6/08 @ Costa Coffee) The dark is lighter - Despite the mask, my skin Feels silver with birdsong. (3/7/08-a night poorly with no sleep) Beside my window The clutter of people's lives Passing at sunset (Holyhead train 21/09/08) Yesterday's breakfast Haunts me - Yes, it's time I fell In love with toothpaste! (Oct 19th 2008) Out in a hailstorm Birds scattering seed. Indoors I spill peppercorns (Oct 29th 2008) Two more tiny lights And all the stars of the Plough Burn in my bedroom (Electrics on standby 26/11/08) Saturn Ascendant. Frost, Vick - too late for garlic. I can't hear my clock. (miserable with the 'man-flu' 30/11/08) Even in the sun Prom white with frost, a new year Crunching underfoot (1/1/09-a week sub-zero by the sea!) Diamond bare twigs Full of nithering starlings Nearly my birthday (Hard winter - 15/1/2009) I miss fluffy snow Knee deep, still, muffling wheels - I want my world back (Unsatisfactory winter - 22/1/2009) Unmoved by mountains Theme-park snow, too far to touch Winter is hearsay (Unsatisfactory winter - 22/1/2009) Brief reunions Two leaves caught in an eddy Floating and drowning (Feb.15th 2009 - not heard from her) My glorious wife The golden face of my son Histories later (24/2/09 - mask of Tutankhamen in fancy dress window) Spinning a light line I catch you with your bright tail Plunge into your sea (8/3/09 - conversing with RevPeter) The light on the Orme In my garden sapphire snow Homeward donkey bells (30/05/09-lovely holiday week! NM on MC on 24th.) Early shift. First bird. Still the blue lights, men searching. My feet are freezing. (12/09/09 at my window with cameras from 04h45 for 2 hours - two fire engines & 3 police cars at our crossroads. A firebug.) Peeholes in the snow our poor eyes puzzling head and the heart dancing (26/11/09 - migraine. Did Mum have it too? We are so alike .) So loud through my wall The voices of the neighbours Who never hear me (21/12/09 - after 11pm trying to sleep) Saturn square Pluto Black ice on the road black ice On my winter road (22/12/09 - Ceres/Neptune under siege - swine flu and a Nuisance!) That suspenseful joy Of not quite seeing the sea Salt on a railing (7/01/10) Inside I am five Crying to print virgin snow The sea stole from me (12/01/10 - the whole UK is snowbound except us.) Thursday - Betws train. Snow printed, child pacified. Haiti in ruins. (14/01/10 - solo excursion to get snow out of my system. Quake mag 7 Jan 12th wrecks Port au Prince killing tens of thousands) The 42nd Mother's Day without a card Or a daffodil (14/03/10. As usual.) dancing with fiddles Joyously stamping chiming rhyming with fiddles (Fiddlers Bid at Theatre By the Lake Easter Sunday 4/4/2010. Ecstatic!) Aging I run down More in my charging cradle Than this well-worn palm (8/06/2010 - don't do evenings any more!) Pruning - a loud car; Their red balloon bounds by me. Square Mars, Aries Moon. (27/07/2013) |