Spider he was called and when he came it was alright I was allowed I didn’t need to pocket a knife “Star cave hin man” pendjoum Like a memory of pride My wife is there laughing and Hej! It was the Dane, the blonde one but Spider had moved on and I had to counter …
Author archives: pasdelasbas
On beauty
It’s not that I don’t want to be seen It is that I don’t want to see
Jazz at the Lescar
Moore Pope Hunter Imagine you’re playing to the OAPs At the Jazz in the Tuesday lunch club in Torrevieja My father there eating his Roast beef Mash Carrots He doesn’t spill the gravy But hears and taps his feet He’d do that even as the citizens start at the sounds of chaos; Birds squalling over …
poem for a peaen
We saw you yesterday Ellesmere GreenCrossing the roadHolding dirty blue jogging slacks up with one handGrey brown jacket too hot for the weather andLooking not at us but where we could not see Then today on Minna RoadIt’s like you’ve taken only one stepAcross the nightThrough morningTo middayHand holding slacksJacket too warmEyes inverted unfurling tomorrow …
A61
A 61 with headphones Driving down the A61 from Sheffield to Chesterfield I turn off Elgar’s Nimrod and I pull into a layby. I leave the car and with the dog on the lead I find a gap in the hedge and descend through an archaeology of cannabis, strata of clay pebbles and plastic bags. …
cow parsley
Parkwood flustered with cow parsley So evidently frail like a mind fog in the trees A scent slightly acrid steams this head
to be
through the trickle of it all through the treacle of it all it just comes to be
bearing…
Damn it I’d forgotten then I read about you and straight back you came tearing my eyes like life thank you Damn them The Dead Bringing so much life To bear
Not Yet
what’s on your mind? I asked. After some thought It’s just… What is it I asked putting my hand on his shoulder… It’s just…When is the end? Not yet I explained and I don’t know when but not now. We talked about wheelchairs and stairlifts and all the other (in)conveniences that were better than the …
The view, tiny fingers, silhouette twigs,