Water boiling Under canvas Little Malaya (Pissing down) With minor surgery Planned Some clumsy grunt Through a windscreen Glass To be removed Cuts Sutured I wash my hands in the prescribed manner In the prescribed manner I wash my hands I must avoid spreading infections I must cleanse my hands before and after examining patients […]
Tag: faith
Jerusalem Mourning
One too many morningsUp that precipitous hillOne too many beats of that sterling heartOne too many longingsFor truthAndChristSuddenlyYou were gone You were gone In a manner ostentatiously matter of fact Your traveler’s litany begun … Arch and Milly would have grievedFor their son(named for an illustrious man)Who becameThe illuminationOfLettersInAotearoa AndWouldTodayHave voted green No doubt But […]
Insomniac Faith (endless truth)
(For Cushla: Valentine’s Day 2009) You are there Of course you are there Where else would you be (would be your answer) Where else but here Heart knows Head Not so assured It is an endless fascination Skin like shot silk Then Light through yonder window breaks Breaks up Cracks up There you are I […]
Earworms at Midnight
Thinking about Billy Bragg and the sad, youthful illusion of hope. Thanks for that ear worm at 11.30 at night, Billy. ‘I saw two shooting stars last night I wished on them but they were only satellites It’s wrong to wish on space hardware I wish, I wish, I wish you’d care.’ A New England […]
When I was a kid, New Year’s Eve was a bit of a thing.
Facebook 31 December 2021 When I was a kid, New Year’s Eve was a bit of a thing. I didn’t know then but where we lived was the wrong side of the tracks and brutally working class. It was post-war, the dawning of the 1950s, and everyone on our street lived in a state house. […]
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