Pax

This is my interpretation of Jon Klassen’s beautiful illustration for the front cover of Pax, a novel by Sara Pennypacker. Continue reading →

Sentinel

Sentinels guarding a polluted lie Towering machines, like giant sauropods keeping the chimney stacks company The planet reduced to an Continue reading →

Pamper

We’re all pampered and preened And Hercules the eagle owl looks down his regal beak Imperious, magnificent We would stumble Continue reading →

Her Heart

She gave him her heart She had found it amongst the loam A seemingly irrelevant discovery He promised to cherish Continue reading →

The Days of Love – An Aardvark Tale

“One day as the sun draped lazily on the horizon The Bitterness Of Time got restless and rode a leaf Continue reading →

Mighty Jonah

1995, what a summer! The summer of youth The summer of Oasis The summer of GCSE’s The summer of friends Continue reading →

Dear Dementia

Dear Dementia, In France I’m “une homme vieux” “A man who is old” In English I’m an “old man” Please Continue reading →

Tentative

He approaches his push bike But is tentative because whilst the spider is a beauty of nature He doesn’t want Continue reading →