Sea, The Eternal

 Sea, The Eternal You look upon meas countless millions before.From high, lownight and dayCountless years, centuries, millennia.They gazed, as you gaze. Curious at this two-sided conundrum.Source of life, and death.So much death.So much death to fill an ocean.Day and...
Song in a Time of Change

Song in a Time of Change

What’s that you carry on your back? The black stone of my story. What do you keep under your tongue? A song my mother taught me. What are you gripping in your fist? A ship the sea has broken. What can I see behind your eyes? The sky, a star, an ocean. Blue sky, a...
Kettletoft to Quoyness

Kettletoft to Quoyness

Sunday – the empty square the locked bar three fishing boats tethered at the pier a portacabin bank open once a week an empty road between level barley-fields fulmar on its nest in the ruins of a church a meadow of yellow iris where sheep and gravestones sleep shimmer...
Chambered Cairn, Quoyness

Chambered Cairn, Quoyness

the passage is three feet high on your knees in the seething dark you enter in the corbelled chamber’s space you uncoil and stand earthfast at the centre silence hisses in your ears on an inch of paper you write the three runes of your name, bind it with hair and hide...