There was frost on the deck this morning My Love. A winter coat of crystalline fur Covering the wood with premonition of winter. I shuffled carefully to My Spot at the end of the empty pool, And sat and stretched, Feeling muscles tense and release their way Into the solo start of my day. The sun was high. Flying through a cloudless sky, I reached for it At its zenith over my hatless head. Cold fingers empty, it was instead Captured in a million shards of light Lazily floating

From cushioned seat... I watch the battle-fought treasure of rich dark soils rush by, Endless acres of life sustaining grains stretching...

I will away before you wake, A weary journey to partake. As you lift and shake your head, Your dusty hold... I will have fled As from...

I do not fear and yet I weep, Too much undone before I sleep. Bomb, you coward, Burn and break My country for your ego’s sake As clouds...

Today I cried out Moved by song of man and child. I placed my head in my hands But... Failed to kneel. I wept. Warm heart rending tears...

For Isabel and Leon as they start their married life Birds hang From the rafters of Heaven In rapt anticipation For the joining Of lives....

Whirling gulls beat transparent skies, Filling wind with gust torn cries, Soundless granite aches to share, Sunrise glories oceans...

Beautiful and distant You were Tethered to us Like a glacier Before it calves In a splintering rainbow Silently drifting Off Alone Cold...

She used to dance Before she said "Yes". Her body remembers the feel of "that" dress Light as a whisper and deep as the night It twinkled...

I See You. Etched clearly On crisp white paper, Framed by cotton soft locks. Light sinks into the deep folds of your parchment skin, Yet...

How blessed am I? To sit 'neath impossible sky And drink in calm and mirrored blue Broken only by one… No two... Cormorants. Thrusting...

Do you remember? Our island in the sea? Barren… Sandy… Humid.. But home to you and me? Do you remember? Our houses squat and square?...

It is time Our Lord God said For you to close your eyes and rest your head Upon the soft and pillowed bed Of green pastured Earth. It is...

Pegged haphazardly they hang Weighted by water and volume Private garments for all to see Crisp drying in the Sun. The sight comforts me...

They came in the night Praetorian guard Wave after wave Attacked, Parried and sparred. Heroic their efforts As North Wind it blew Despite...

I took a walk today Along a sandy beach. The edge at which the unknown depths Attempt their final reach For Earth’s silicate security -...

Let's go. Fly away with me, Into sky blue and over the sea. United We will slip the snare of this Earth’s tether And, with flapping wing...

The gravel crunched under my feet, like the grinding of peppercorns… steady rhythmic... pestle against mortar. Lapis lazuli sky was...

Upon which day did you decide To take your life, to run and hide? Away from me, In that secret place I cannot see? I looked for you under...

Our triune God from outset did decree Frail mortals… Made in His image… Should live as He. And thus alone we must not be But live... In...