Struck

Very pleased to have ‘Struck’ published at the Poetry Shed. 

This one was inspired by an object shown to me many years ago by the very knowledgable Sandy Edwards, who was curator of the Bell Pettigrew Natural History Museum at the time. Since then I have (amongst other things!) spent many years being fortunate enough to do ‘media odd jobs’ for researchers involved in studying the scope and meaning of sounds made by marine mammals. My knowledge of what they do is slight, but I continue to find what they discover remarkable and inspiring.

old post

windstream whittled

boundary lines surrendered

sculpture on the way

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Gallery

Something a little different – a gallery with an assortment of some of the images and montages that I’ve made to illustrate this blog over the past wee whiley …

Chuck Wagon crossing The Great Scots Pine

The island of Macgyver

Montage

Found art

A poppy pin.
Fallen, rainwashed,
Rusted, gathered,
Repinned, raindropped.
A tiny lamp relit.

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Survival kit

Survival Kit

A story is commuted,
In unusual company,
Of a forgotten briefcase.

Essential labels

Somewhere in the back of my mind, were the wonders of the ‘perfume maker’s organ’ – like this magnificent and rare specimen at the Palazzo Mocenigo Museum in Venice.

Something a little different – a series of seven ‘photo-label-poems’.

These are a light hearted response to an invitation from my brother-in-law to take part in a seven day ‘nature image’ photography challenge.

I decided to combine my response with a small collection of old laboratory bottles loaned from a colleague at work, and with some [very] short poems responding to each image, in the form of a label…

 

Empty specimen tube

Empty specimen tube

Only the glass and a label remain,

Hand inked and underscored in 1898,

Now discoloured, cracked and torn:

 

KING of the HERRING

Chimae … monserosa

MALE

Great Fisher Bank. 1898

 

Lord of darlings,

Bright as salt burnished silver.

Ozymandias of the herring kind.

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