Journey of Words

Tag: Travel

  • Yesterdays

    toes freed, feet tickledby low-tide’s sandy ribsevery single little breaking wavea chargefired through shocked ankle bonessparking skin, heart, eyeswhipping North Sea air from my lungsMore waves! More waves! More waves!more Yesterdays ~ CLP 09/09/2021 →

  • on the bus

    buy return ticketalways a sensible movechoose to use or burn ~ CLP 03/09/2021 →

  • Ghost

    Aegean blueor is it greenclear to the seabedshadow so sharpit cut me outcast me in stoneanchored meand here I am stillwaiting for youto dive in too ~ CLP 29/08/2021 →

  • August viii

    crisp sun sharp blue heat this southern sky long since missed now untouchable ~ CLP 14/08/2021 →

  • On Hope v

    light across hard ground miles devoured with smiles alive to what’s new ~ CLP 21/07/2021 →

  • On Silence

    when all talk has stopped see our love’s patient progress quiet reflection ~ CLP 08/07/2021 →

  • On the other side

    over many bridges is grass that’s always greener who would not go there? ~ CLP 02/07/2021 →

  • Dream #22

    Which bed is this? I wake unsure no standard hotel shape to reassure my musty head is somewhere secure familiar start to a new day with an unfamiliar face who has just pulled close the door behind her I hold a memory of shapes and words recalled too late that was not her name she →

  • Dream #21

    heavy rain’s half-time shuffle on the roof mixes with the jazz ostinato beat of towering street lamps flicking by wheels slip over pools along the carriageway sheets of spray from trucks misting view red rear lights, pairs of dazzling white approach, recede dashboard indicators green there’s a song replaying on the radio today becomes yesterday →

  • Time #2

    robin, sparrow, pigeon motorway, next door’s children blue sky, white walls, dawn bright silver birch shine, heat of sheet sourness of sweat, weight of limb heavy head, weary heart click of clock, click of clock click of clock, laughing gull ~ CLP 16/06/2021 →