frozen raindrop

2009-10-01T13:55:00.000+01:00

Three birds diverge fast,
their branch crashing to the ground,
and silence resumes

2009-09-09T00:44:00.000+01:00

Suburban midnight –
ranging empty taxi and
forlorn orange skirt

2009-09-08T20:34:00.000+01:00

The CD player
ticks silent seconds in the
car next to my bus

2009-09-01T17:49:00.000+01:00

Oh revelation –
'til today I never knew
that rainbows could wink

2009-09-01T08:41:00.001+01:00

Bus girl, phone in sick –
only work uniforms can
make red so lifeless

2009-06-29T07:13:00.000+01:00

Tiny pinprick holes
in the blind at the window
make constellations

2009-06-18T10:04:00.000+01:00

Our visitors leave
down the valley side, to the
southern hemisphere

2009-06-17T18:35:00.000+01:00

A job will be done
if, my baby, you always
laugh at cats and rain

2009-06-16T10:55:00.000+01:00

Cut branches grow back,
weeds return to bared soil, with
something like fierceness

2009-06-15T14:08:00.000+01:00

Oh angry driver –
someone should tell you you can't
pick fights with hailstones

2009-06-14T11:31:00.000+01:00

A snail at the foot
of a tall tomato plant,
psyching himself up

2009-06-13T15:24:00.000+01:00

3pm – the day,
like its first pint, now settling,
clarified at last

2009-06-12T18:37:00.000+01:00

The dark brown waters
of the Humber's gaping mouth
don't notice my train

2009-06-11T12:14:00.000+01:00

Disappointingly,
passing by Lord's cricket ground,
no six hits my bus

2009-06-10T22:48:00.000+01:00

"We will never die,"
sing the band, while down the front
all the oldies mosh

2009-06-09T23:36:00.001+01:00

Before the popshow,
after one more day at home,
the jangle of night

2009-06-08T13:20:00.000+01:00

Between the baby
waking and starting to cry
there's a full moment

2009-06-07T17:11:00.000+01:00

Not so much a drum,
more an endless paper tear,
the sound of the rain

2009-06-06T15:17:00.000+01:00

Look at the seconds
ticking on the station clock,
try and make them stop

2009-06-05T07:48:00.000+01:00

First song of the day:
the melodic tinkle of
cornflakes on your bowl

2009-06-04T19:12:00.001+01:00

Having voted Green,
I leave the polling station;
traffic thunders by

2009-06-03T19:36:00.000+01:00

Young couple parting
on a corner with kisses,
take my sadness too.

2009-06-02T18:17:00.000+01:00

The door's wide open
but you opt to sulk indoors,
oh contrary bee

2009-06-01T10:04:00.000+01:00

The garden is so
heavily teeming, you can
almost hear buds split

2009-05-31T17:24:00.000+01:00

We dash like sprinters
for the train that's replatformed,
due in twelve minutes