Category: Poems
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New Poem: Beaten Tracks
Beaten Tracks On the sleepers between Forest Hill and Brockley broken rails are lain down, flanked by the tidy parallels of clean-humming steel tracks. They are tensile failures, pieces and fractures, all angles and rough edges, serving brittle punishment for going out of line and giving in when the wheels rolled their backs. © KB…
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A Poem in Five Minutes Between Bells
A Poem in Five Minutes Between Bells In these few moments after the silence grows from the stilling clanger and before the pulsing switch-gear of the restless clock brings again noise and movement, I will sit. I will take this time, set it out, as on a tray and arrange its pieces and make something:…
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A Cartesian Thought
The polymath Rene Descartes, Described life at its thoughtful heart: ‘Je pense donc je suis’ – It’s thinking makes me Was a ‘sophical work of art. But the converse of what he had said Brings an interesting thought to my head: When they rage in their cars, Elbow people in bars Is it true that…