What I learned about Ancient Greece at the Museum today they had a season for battle between grains and grapes summers of trampled fields the dead young among the crop rows another harvest in the walloping sun we don’t wear the same clothes and our horses are just for fun but we live under the … Continue reading harvest in the sun
A school excursion to the recycling centre today - among the plastic torsos and gentle stench of a million used milk bottles, and the processed tree-fibres - those flat-topped mountains of once crisp cardboard. It's Remembrance Day and here among yesterday's rubbish, the children stand observing a minute's silence as the bugle sounds the Last … Continue reading Remembrance Day
We found ourselves in the sun beside the lake with its glinting horizontal lines. The grass was green and soft and the blossom trees sent breaths of white tumbler-petals harmlessly among the seated every time the casuarinas sighed. We are here to remember my grandfather among the petals and the singing and the mellow clang … Continue reading A re-work of At the Peace Bell
Out of the Cave 