Photography

If I had to live anywhere else

I’d like to live by a rivers side

to watch the water flow

clear in spring and yellow

amber wine in summer

then brown in Autumn

with the waters full in spate.

And I could wash away the regrets

and worries, and that feeling

that I’ve failed you badly

If I had to live somewhere else

I’d want to live by the sea

overlooking a wide estuary

and walk along the gathering shore

to look underneath wrack

and peer into clear pools

that tides wash clean.

And maybe the sea

could wash away the sorrow

the regret for all the pain.

If I had to live anywhere else

I’d want to live where the air

in the summer stays cool and clean

so maybe a clearing in a forest

with stands of great trees

and a spring of clear water

that I could drink and slake

my thirst for the calm

of a quietening soul

and feel the certainty of you.

RAC

Ghosts of love

If there is not love

What is there

A vacuum

The emptiness

Of words

Something spectral

Of what used to be.

RAC.

Imaginary

I read her posts

Sometimes

I examine

The images

The work

The texture

Of the glistening

Hue

The delicacy

Of words

A story

Stories

And muse

Over that first

Morning coffee

Of the journey

Of all the journeys

Imagine

Glaze.

RAC

Westerlies

I watch the skies

These days

Anxious

For the change

Noting the Westerlies

Return

And that blue

Of western skies

And the Cirrus

High above

It seems

To my eye

A kinder sky

In some way

.

RAC

Time to heal.

I wondered about the time

So pulled the sleeve back

That covered my watch

I was wearing two watches

I was puzzled by that

I had no memory

Of clipping them on

My browned wrists

The older watch

Doesn’t work

The replacement

Tells time fine

PTSD

Is like that.

The flocks been shorn

The ewes searching, calling

For lambs gone away

We are the explorers

Of time.

In which

Our watchfulness

Reveals

A revelation

An awareness

Of life’s turning wheel.

We the silent sentinels

Examine time

Embracing

The glue that alloys

That anneals and binds

The eternal tick,

Hum and thrum

Of the Atomic.