Poems

Wateriness

Silvery shock at slight rain skimming the pond.
A rainbow mirrored in water of forest-green.

Water is essential to life. Without water
we would not have all these paintings of water.


Philosophy

My daughter studies a famous paper
What is it Like to Be a Bat?

while I am wondering
what it’s like to be my daughter.


Cutting

The disused cutting reverts to
          a cliff-edge of limestone.
To every crevice its secret
          mosses, its redlegged cranesbill.
A chinking within the wall is
          betraying the nest of a wagtail.
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