Photographs at the Tate

Duty

Duty is a test word
Of 'ought' not 'want'.
Selfish or sense to say 'No'?

The beckoning

Brancaster beach

Rejection

Rejection hurts;
It gnaws and destroys.
Our task ...
Turn it round and find light.

Mestrovic sculpture

haiku

Secret codes in Fair Isle wool,
Identity and island
through pattern.

Wedding

Tender blazing love

Trumpets the sharing of joy

Trumping darker strains.

haiku

Beached: the whale,
Like his hopes, surf dumped;
Dying through wrong turns.

Observation

The acne of pavements
Out chewed,spat out,scraped off:
Gum...
Spots of our time.

Treescape

Theatre history

The shocking becomes commonplace
becomes classic,
The joy of history.

View from a window in the National Theatre

Skylight from Sir John Soane's Museum

Words

Words are our currency
To connect, but they
Sip and skid and sometimes
....fail.