Companion – For my father, 22 December 2007

Wherever I go in space and time,
Or beyond the realms of solidity;
On journeys across the wilds and wastes
Or over the eternal sea –
I recall your words, so long ago,
To comfort, reassure and hold -
I’ll be with you,
Wherever you are,
Forever,
Far apart though we may be.

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Silence – a poem for my father, 15 June 2000

Silence 1
For my father, who listens
A cold song playing in my floating head,
Sighing familiar old tunes of times past,
Coffee, thick espresso, pouring darkly, steaming,
Birds all flying away for the winter.
Buildings rising out of trees, quiet brown-green leaves,
Impermanence built of plastic and paraffin, fire and smoke;
Lives built on sand dunes of fragile structures,
Fragile bodies built of [...]

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