Category: Poems

A poem for the Earth: Thirteen Waves

March 22, 2023

A poem for the Earth. Celebrating the most beautiful beach in the world, Back Beach in Taranaki and lamenting its sad history with 245-T

July 13, 2022

My out-of-control mouth proposed a new analogy for extreme old age. (No surprise from an old poet.) Think of an episodic political play.

March 19, 2022

I love Saturday soup. Don’t you? It deserves its own illustrious elegy with multi-syllabic words and Homeric similes. But this will do.

March 15, 2022

A sensitively translated poem is a window into other minds, other worlds. Ukrainian poems online in translation.

March 2, 2022

When I cough (because my throat is dry) my first response is not to have a drink of water but to leap to catastrophe mode: omicron. Poem.