NaSmaStoMo. National Small Stone Month.

Saturday 1 January 2011


After the whizz-bang
crackle and spark of midnight
emptiness fills me


Sunday 2 January 2011


Having gathered up the eggs I step outside and see the chickens strutting and pecking. How do you thank them? I scatter extra corn.


Monday 3 January 2011


Waking in darkness / your odour / arouses me / I  brush my lips against / your invisible skin


Tuesday 4 January 2011


Alone in a lift I thought 'what if?' as I dared to imagine dying without you.


Wednesday 5 January 2011


Candleflame / a soft yellow teardrop / swaying / in a mihrab / of shadows


Thursday 6 January 2011


Dung heap / shit and straw / still steaming / the reek of malt / filling my lungs


Friday 7 January 2011


Fire-gazing - licks of orange - blue-green flickers of burning gas - deep inside the flames a cavern - where a dragon hides.


Saturday 8 January 2011


Spontaneously / we dance / the four of us / as Sting sings / Shape of my heart


Sunday 9 January 2011


An amber lamp / glowing / in the coal-black night / so far away / a stranger's place


Monday 10 January 2011


Standing - in pouring rain - echoes of Creation - boom silently - in my tears


Tuesday 11 January 2011


Holding him close / I catch / my foreverness / brimming / inside his cloudless eyes


Wednesday 12 January 2011


Staring - into a violet - cathedral of quartz - intoxicated - by its lustre


Thursday 13 January 2011


Hush (raindrops: splish splosh). Brook purls cantabile over smooth stones (churgle, babble, blooop). My soul squelches like soft moss.


Friday 14 January 2011


Street light / flickers / in amber spasms / i wonder / is it going to die?


Saturday 15 January 2011


In the backwash / of cyber-conversations /a sunbow / dancing / in spindrift


Sunday 16 January 2011


Windows lashed by storms - my galleon dips, rises - in the ocean's swell


Monday 17 January 2011


I gaze up at the firmament / to all the stars and galaxies / I cannot see / and ask myself / why am I writing this?


Tuesday 18 January 2011


Up in the sky / ashes and pearls / smoking and cinerous / stifling / a lemon-drop sun


Wednesday 19 January 2011


A tree: a trilogy


one)    shingles of bark / corky fibres / blue-grey / gilded with silver
two)    sapwood / creamy and smooth / ivory / tinged with amber
three)  huge gnarl / like a troll's eye / staring at me /pitifully


Thursday 20 January 2011


Oh irony of fox-brown feathers/ floppy bonnet/ bright as bacon/ ancient amber eyes/ lay me a speckled egg http://twitpic.com/3s1x0y

Friday 21 January 2011


Coy moon/ streaked with gunsmoke/ clouds tinged/ with old gold/ in a navy sky


Saturday 22 January 2011


Shavings / beneath a lathe / pine-scented curls / of heartwood / aesthetic


Sunday 23 January 2011


Sighs of contentment - listening to flowing stream - full bladder empties


Monday 24 January 2011


Wind turbines/ rising like shock troops/ over the wold/ spinning/symbols of peace


Tuesday 25 January 2011


Vaulted ~ altar of trees ~ blackbird sings ~ in the silence ~ of a  rainstop


Wednesday 26 January 2011


Your breath ~ an opaline mist ~ on my ordinary day


Thursday 27 January 2011


Blue police domes ~ flash silently ~ a woman sits ~ by the roadside ~ weeping


Friday 28 January 2011


Goldfinch sings ~ in Rowan tree ~ its home ~ a moss cup ~ hidden in the hedgerow


Saturday 29 January 2011


Stone walls ~ brooding ~ splitting green ~ ancient thresholds ~ keepers of space


Sunday 30 January 2011


Sheep plucks grass/ from wintered fields/ inside her body/ heartbeats of Spring/ ticking softly


Monday 31 January 2011


Dip your hand in the water ~ pull out your golden moment