At a head-stroke
you sail along sound waves
throat travelling to some
rainbow’s end in your
voice-box-boat.
We calibrate vibrations
in Hertz. At 25 – 50,
the frequency of purrs:
the same tremor of mending
for muscles, bone, tendon:
for relief of pain.
Come, travel again.
(1962 – 22 December 2009)
Again I leave the ward and look out through the windscreen at the bluebells on the grass, again see Sister’s eyes. She’d thought I knew that if you went home it would be to pass [… read more ]
i.m. Edward King (1862-1951) You’d hope, so close to St Thomas’s church it would be safer, but they bombed it flat, straight up. Edward King had time to paint it, like those Western film [… read more ]
i.m. Edward King (1862-1951) The painting looks a bit off, wonky walls splay from the vertical, the roof is gone. Light streams from between colonnades like flames. It might be sunbeams through the guildhall’s [… read more ]
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