A small but emotive collection of modern poetry. From the iconic journey of “Walking Thru Fire”, through the magnificent “St. Ives”, these poems examine the struggle with love, time and history, reflecting on our modern condition via a broad stylistic range. Sometimes lyrical, sometimes harsh, they offer both an internal and external view of what it is to be ourselves. Like a collection of snapshots in a mixture of black-and-white, sepia and full colour, “Walking Thru Fire” is both an intimate and personal recollection.
CORMORANTS DIVING
I stood on the sea-wall
and watched cormorants diving
into the cold grey sea.
You nearby
– watching me watching them –
knowing I had not seen you
nor spotted your sophisticated
remote control device.
You fooled me with your body
and its language –
and as you fooled me then,
so the cormorants rise always
where I did not expect to see them.
Cormorants diving, you say,
is a simple matter of being able
to hold your breath under water.
Work from “Walking Thru Fire” is now only available in “Collected Poems“.
