Category Archives: Poetry

How I see this journal

I am advised that the best blogs are focused.   But I want this site to reflect the diversity of my interests – poetry, dance, performance art, essays and music.  Over the years, I have become reconciled to being a … Continue reading

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A Thought

It’s fucking hard work being a beggar in Paris: It takes more out of you than any conventional job To scratch interminably and with increasing violence At the old itch, to lie shivering in rags On the pavement for twenty-four … Continue reading

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The Talisman

  Once, she said, you used a word I didn’t so much mind. Hmm, but what was it? None of those put forward: x Something airbrushed out Of my vocabulary; So should I chant a litany, Trawl for turns of … Continue reading

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