Poetry

In June 2019 I published a collection of poetry, The Last Green Thing through Asquith Press at TPL. Cover design by Neil Ornstein.

A second printing was published in 2020. If you'd like a copy, get in touch.

Below you'll find some more poems of mine!

14.06.2024

The carbon in flowers in built from

Your car exhaust

That's probably scientifically an

Oversimplification but I

Like to think the garden,

Waiting in the sun,

Already believing in next summer,

Take what they can get before

The gift becomes too much.

12.04.2020

That twilight moment when the

Day hands it to the streetlights

That they light industriously

What the birds sing

What the wood smokes

What the dusk forgot to

Account for.

19.03.2018

What do you know about

Crocuses

Those early adopters of the sun

Building up from winter’s ravages

A reconstruction of the spring?

Come summer, they’re forgotten

By the shady splendour of roses

Peonies and bleeding hearts:

Leaves and petals with divine right

To squander sun and lavish daylight.

But before it can be said that

The sun has come back

The crocuses believe it will and

Bank on their hope and

Declare the spring from

Out of the snow.

05.06.2017

Today while I was walking I saw

Two ripped-off wings

Strewn on the asphalt

Like imperfections in the paving

Being pecked at by sparrows

Valiant with the greater having been

Laid to waste

Taken away by

One of the devouring mouths

Of time.

The saddest part was

The wings were still good

And I wonder why that poor pigeon

Chose to fly to death.

Perhaps quick

He was not quick enough.