Poems

Random Access Memory

Computers can be a boon, or they can be a bane when they fail to cooperate again and again. RAM’s all well and good in its place but when you can’t import files from PC to Mac they prove to be an utter disgrace. The grief involved in error messages is fearfully hard...

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Touching the Tajo

Returning to the rock bosom of my homeland and being reracinated, in a phantasmagoric bath full of hot bubbles which fascinate the senses; immersed in retrievable shapes and colours from another time when one was distantly taking life’s first tender steps sublime. A...

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Through Glasses Darkly or Larkin Ascending

In dread of the grim reaper writes taut verse  the bard of Hull, laureate of the misanthropic universe. Through the prism of his blinkered eyes peering empirically at human sacrifice; measuring life by the railway’s gauge, which trundles troops to the trenches where...

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The Rarebits

 A rabbit scuts across the sward as the day draws in to evening and the lengthening shadows hide his companions nibbling side by side. A sound as if of wind or water can be heard since all is still it’s kind of weird. I take a sip of well-chilled ale and a pull upon...

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