It’s what remains. The scent that lingers in the air When someone passes by. Clinging…

The coroner virus has set up in town. He’s taking your pulse and your President down.

One wish, two wish, too Surrender, obsessed illusions, to forget…

‘Sent out of sight Somewhere becoming rain’ We let the arrows go, Fighting with all we have.

Another Winter; each is different, each is fringed with last year’s, arthritic twigs and blackened grass…

I fix my husbands clothes, darn his socks, repair the holes

where he splits his jeans…

And what if I were then to write a sonnet? And put my words in such a solid form…

Though seventy years of snow have sheathed your homeland’s crops and landscapes…

Life is a life sentence. If someone looks haggard and we ask what happened, it’s always

She took me by the hand and plunged me into a world of light Into the darkest depths of seas…

I am the dreadful menace, the one who haunts by night. Living inside a cave of doom…

Relax, reconnect with your body My therapist says.

But how can I reconnect…

In the dead of night, In the stillness, In the moments without light…

“My dear fellow, have we met?” I don’t think so- I do regret. Well never mind, let’s have some tea!

Sleeping on a summer’s say, dreaming ‘neath s willow branch…

Out of the cerulean sky comes a bright white steed with a tail of red…

Today’s a shadow on the ground, a dark to which I’m falling. Though all it does is lie around…

Society needs some certain laws. For peace, the baddies must not spot flaws or rules they’d bend…

To be alone in deep silence, to be in birdsong beside oceans and waterfalls, to be a lone wolf in the wild...

Though Faluns burn, each beckon saves, their flames highlight cold slaughter. They glow with beams beyond their graves…