elfje

Hope -
Leaf buds
On broken branches
Cheer my unaccountable heart
Reassurance

Reunion Blues

Three penguins stroll down the street, reminiscing nostalgically about a time when
everything was black and white...

HIS six-word-Saturday

(Blasted dog!)
'Hare-chasing, coursing through her blood...'


And mine:
'My mathematician - he can write too...'

Cambridge dusk

Banks of black clouds are angry purple hills on the fen-flat horizon

April?!

It is snowing again today;
in the park seagulls circle
in disbelief.

By the pond
well-wrapped children throw bread
to the ducks.

the east wind is too fierce
for the water to freeze

Ducks

Three painted mallards flew across the blue sky this morning
exactly the formation of those plaster ducks that rose
eternally
above the fireplaces of our fifties childhoods

'Bookspine poetry' from my shelves

'When we were very young
so many ways to begin...

A moment in time...

When we were orphans
...the shadow of the wind...'