Saturday, 31 December 2011

end of an old year:
dashed hopes and disappointments
lie like fallen leaves.
cold winter garden,
early morning cigarette:
smoke and steam my breath.
nests in winter trees
exposed by autumn striptease,
leafless, not lifeless.

Friday, 4 November 2011

orange yellow leaves
push through rusting Cheshire rails,
distant hills in mist.

Saturday, 29 October 2011

in constant motion
shifting shape, direction too,
twilight starling flock.

Monday, 10 October 2011

broken wing pigeon,
fluttering at the roadside.
blood on clean t-shirt.
sinuous squirrels,
forage through the drying leaves,
finding sweet chestnuts.

Wednesday, 28 September 2011

a lost cat poster.
in the low autumn sunlight
hope fades like the ink.
row of horse chestnuts
all losing leaves from their crowns.
male pattern baldness.

Friday, 16 September 2011

diffuse morning light:
silhouetted on hilltop
solitary sheep.

Thursday, 8 September 2011

'great place to shop' signs
cover abandoned shopfronts.
wind blows dead leaves past.

Saturday, 27 August 2011

after summer rain
trees shed a second drizzle.
gutter now a stream.

Saturday, 6 August 2011

leaves of red,gold, green:
the rastafarian trees.
first signs of autumn.
rosebay willowherb.
flowers ascending the stem:
slow motion fireworks.

Tuesday, 2 August 2011

trees are burnished gold
as the late summer sunset
paints the leaves with light

Sunday, 17 July 2011

the scent of damp air,
after summer thunderstorm,
blends with cigarettes.

Wednesday, 22 June 2011

bursting from branches,
an explosion of feathers:
thrushes chase magpie.

Tuesday, 31 May 2011

parabolic swoop,
from the trees comes a blackbird:
i brake suddenly.

Saturday, 28 May 2011

petals have fallen
rowan is pausing for breath
preparing for fruit.

Tuesday, 24 May 2011

al fresco dining
stuck between the table slats
half a cockchafer.

Friday, 20 May 2011

jackdaw listening
insects amongst the grass heads
a joyful leap - snap!
cracks in the pavement,
filled by the water fountains.
dabbling pigeons

Sunday, 15 May 2011

flash of red in green,
a robin feeding its mate:
courtship by insect.
trees in right angles,
lorry-cut topiary,
lining the roadside.

Thursday, 5 May 2011

ring road, Chapel Ash,
surrounded by roundabout
a sunbather lies.
walking into town,
mayflower scents in the air,
hayfever starting.

Friday, 29 April 2011

mayflower hedgerows,
waves breaking on the roadside.
high water, spring tide.
fresh leaves on lime tree
rub against the bus window,
blushing red with youth.

Thursday, 28 April 2011

abandoned building.
pigeons on broken windows
watch the buses pass.
jumper in my hand,
walking the Tettenhall Road
in the bright sunshine:

dog roses peer over walls,
pavement spattered with goose shit.

Saturday, 23 April 2011

spiralling around,
twisting and mewing on high:
crow mobs a buzzard.

Wednesday, 6 April 2011

hours before the dawn
a fox cries from the darkness
summoning the spring

Friday, 1 April 2011

pink snow in gutters,
covering cigarette ends.
cherry blossom falls.

Tuesday, 29 March 2011

elms haloed with green,
rookeries in the tree tops
will soon be hidden.

Sunday, 27 March 2011

fog from the canal,
trees fade in morning distance.
last shout of winter.
shivering naked,
new buds at the branch ends.
soon it will be April.