Here now this long-dead tree

        Here now this long-dead tree

        great grey galleon

        against

        the golden morning sky

        post pigeons

        in its ruined rafters

        roots deep

        in old centuries

        and blackened by ancient fire

        before white settlement

        still sailing

        in silence and solitude

        just before

        the disused railway bridge

        fretting

        into the last century

        re-leafed each morning

        with the long leavings

                               of its emptiness.

 These poems are from my new collection IN THE APRICOT DARKNESS (view the cover and contents below in my recent posts). They are now being published individually, daily under 'recent posts' on my blog and will be available shortly as an eBook that can be read online or downloaded for free.