Poem of the Month

-from Night Transit You laid me between you and you held my breath. Day spread its sail over us, our shroud shone. We lay transfigured and yet world went on. […]

– from Dark Horse ~ after ‘First Lesson’ by Philip Booth In the reservoir, I recall a dead man’s float. Gliding from one side of circular cement walls to the […]

– from Star Reverse ~ for Sea Watch and the Polish border refugees My wishbone breaks within my wounded breast. In the foam of the sea, expectant women flail for […]

– from Transcontinental Delay Cloudless before sunset, a day without fog, clear as white handkerchiefs waving away ships and present commitments. An apostrophe also for the duneless future. [...]

– from The Mountain Behind the House Calgary, Canada for Julia I carry a geography of the dark with me across oceans, frozen lakes, mountains whiter than ice, where wind […]

– from In Praise of Hotel Rooms Roosters irradiate the dawn. Come day, this is my reminder, this is my gauge, and everything follows. Dipped sky, pale enclosure of grasses. […]

– from Palimpsests ~ Port Alfred pier, Eastern Cape, South Africa A cold wind, buffeting in across a blank desolation of sea. Terns flung into the air, veils of sand […]

– from Allegories of the Everyday Our windhover It’s easy now to slip uphill, in cars, snaking up these smooth tarred roads to the Valley of Desolation, sacrificing all the […]

– From A Private Audience There was a party and the grown-ups sat on the stoep and drank whisky and gin. We played hide-and-seek. You chased me, I ran down […]

– From The Mountain Behind the House,   There is no mountain at the front of our new house. There are only birds and thin fever trees. There are only […]

– From Metaphysical Balm for Marina Can you live on another plane, incarnate, soul travel to a different dimension, transmuted? Can you edge out your physical pain, in a metaphysical […]

— From In Praise of Hotel Rooms Roosters irradiate the dawn. Come day, this is my reminder, this is my gauge, and everything follows. Dipped sky, pale enclosure of grasses. […]