The hum comes from all angles. Wherever you turn it's there outside, inside an undercurrent to the incidental clatter of washing up, the...

Mercury Fold Saturn's rings are cheap tricks from these seats; planetary witchcraft of the most ancient order. Spin a bucketful of water...

shall we gaze at the end from here together, then alone. unthinkable. it was bad enough with the dog. get another one, friends chorused....

The Death of Chatterton by Henry Wallis George Rawlins writes: These poems are from a book-length sequence that reimagines in fifty-seven...

Poetry Makes Nothing Happen - W.H. Auden Let it make nothing happen more, this year, so that a young girl whose mail arrives early can...

Let's start with Kit Wright, a poet who was, and still is, a big influence. Here he is, explaining what floats his poetic boat: I like...

Dead Easy Running unsteadily towards the arc of thrown corn she suddenly falters, totters under the cherry tree like a clockwork toy...

Stone Walls I remember the day the tanks rolled up and we hid in that narrow room at the back of the house. The birds fell silent. In a...

Washing my Father's Hair I try my best to hide the shock but we both know that death has left a shadow on the skin that stretches over...

Stealing Sunday Dinner We tell each other stories in a shallow bath, pour them out hot from the tap, let them lap around our knees,...

Stop Telling God What To Do You ask what the world would look like If you rode, like God, on a beam of light You search the Internet...

Impossible I cannot Soak up a lake With a small bath sponge I cannot Unlock a safe With a tiny toothpick I cannot connect With a Fisher...

…it runs under the skin… (8th visitation) Now they are winged, or seem so. It lasts a minute or two. They...

Insomnia A snow fell on the Northwest Passage of this morning's wakefulness: 3 a.m. and nothing to stand guard against nostalgia, half a...

Here, for the last time, is Fran's introduction: About the poems It is not easy to explain. I owe more to Roddy Lumsden than to any other...

on not swimming I watch the women submerge their shoulders. a seal surfaces out by the rocks. they call: it burns for a minute and then...

Ten Thousand Hours for Anna I was wise to the would-be wizard in me; she wanted to conjure music – pouff! – but was ignorant of what I...

Back to the Garden The inauguration of the 46th President, 20th January 2021 I'd vowed to mark the day by dancing naked in the garden....

The Invisible Woman at Home Intruder rain pours Without salt. Animal, It circles a sleeping Place where she mines her own Mineral from...

Wake I'm at her bedside for my mother's last words. Come closer, Son, she whispers. I lean in, but not so far as to fall. Yes, ma'am, I...

Einstein in the patent office After the layoffs, we talk about it a lot, the thing that should've been obvious but wasn't always. We...

Crystal My mother has always liked light. As a young woman she plastered the back of the alcove with foot-square mirrored tiles and on...

Crow A hangdog crow, indecisively slumped on a post, hesitates between nowheres. Something's crushed his gusto. Failure must be inherent...

Garden Woman You were gone before we could repair the rapture fix the fracture stem the bleed assist the breath. Your absence lies alone...