The Remains of the Day

Love and regret.

Cherry

Whispers of Love

This was a runner-up in the 1998 World Mental Health Day poetry competition, held in York. I travelled down from Aberdeen to read it in person.
Cherry

Not-We

My fault. I sent you away. My Not-We woman of the world, Such dukkha* as I have brought you I brought upon myself. The dark places of the inside opened When I dreamed alone of the future.

The Watcher

(For my sister’s unborn child at three months, based on a picture from a scan) Curled as the crescent of half-moon rising, Waking up to the world within the womb,