In the cool still night
Dew hangs on the violets
And love on your lips.
On the damp Spring earth
The camelia petals
Lie sweet in mourning.
Time like a blackbird
Sat on a bare branch and sang
Of life and sweet love.
Category Archives: Love
You and me
How well the tones and shadows go
Of silver birches on the snow!
How well the snowy mountains high
Are cut and shaped to fit the sky!
Just as the pine bark fits the tree,
So I fit you and you fit me!
Schloss Kasseg, Austria 1991.
My square of window
My square of window
weeping stars in the blue night,
You asleep upstairs.
I lie awake alone
Breathing in time with you.
Doors clicking softly
In the midnight breeze.
Dark curtains swishing,
Soon to be filled pink
with soft morning light.
The sky cut neatly
By the window frames
Into tiny portions
Like blackberry pie
waiting to be eaten.
Albertine roses
Under the sill tap
The cool cement wall
In their wire moorings,
Moved by the night wind
And their own silent growth.
La Croute. St. Ouen, Jersey. 1967
I have a homing instinct for the stars 
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