Poetry is more than words - it's music, mind pictures, a sense-of, an inkling, a savour.
It's one of several arts I practise.
Not unlike painting - often very like painting.
Or creating a garden: that too is about just-so placement.
Like either of those, it's always a work in progress.
Left to my own devices, I would keep changing, remodeling, updating.
But the painting is sold.
The garden's owner is content.
The poem is published...
and its life now depends entirely on its reader's reaction: your interaction with it.
The moment you read it - read it as you - you are giving it new and different life.
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Poems on this website have been published online, in print magazines or anthologies
or are part of my first collection In|Between (Stairwell Books).
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I offer them as seeds, prods (look - differently!), as stranger roads to follow - or whatever the reader
might need them to be.
