April 2020

Garlic

Today I am mostly garlic:yesterday I was toast, andtomorrow I shall be honey This is a journey I have made beforefrom breakfast to bed and back:the sting and the sweetnesson your unsuspecting tongue Today I am classic Greek:yesterday I was…

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Enemy

I am awayfrom the hurl and burly of life:I lurk in my house, watching the enemy go by The street is empty:my enemy is invisible –he may kill meor he may not I cannot hold your handor comfort youin case the…

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Stand well clear

As it’s Easter week, I decided not to write anything about Palm Sunday, Good Friday, Black Saturday or Easter Sunday, on the grounds that what I say will already have been said by members of the clergy not allowed into…

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