Dead daffodil heads

Returning to the leaf mould 

Everything decays 

Inside the wood stack

Giant spiders build their nests

Until autumn burns 

From your long shadows 

Branching all around our ears 

Little buds appear 

Warm adrenaline 

Draining from my shaking limbs

Green after a storm 

From behind soft clouds 

Layers of golden sunlight

Melt into darkness 

Afternoon sunlight

Drawing lines from wild hair

Falls across your face

Magnolia blooms 

Her petals rain around us

Fading memories 

A bubbling pool

Teaming and straining with life

Careful of the edge 

On a distant limb

Hanging by the thinnest thread

 Catch me when I fall

Beady eagle eyes

Reading between every line 

There’s nowhere to hide 

Behind every door

Lies a maze to get trapped in 

Can I hide out here? 

In the garden air

Under the box tree, I said

Will you come to me 

Wherever I am

On mountains or beneath seas

I will still trust you  

Ramsons scent the air

Wild and fecund in spring light 

Shivering bear limbs

Afternoon sunlight 

Steams through the open French doors

There is calm in light 

Hairy catkins bloom

From willow trees I planted

Springing from my hands 

In the cherry tree

Wait for you to come to me

Ever patiently

Curled up in a shell 

Tight spun yarn in twisted skeins

Bones knit together 

Do the song birds wait

For the conductors baton? 

What do I wait for? 

Sown in wild grasses 

Scrambling to the spring sun

Just let yourself grow 

Yesterday is gone 

Tomorrow will never come 

There is only now 

A kestrel watches

Starlings flock in black swarm clouds

He must fly solo

A tawny buzzard

Drawing circles around us

Take cover inside 

From inside this box

I could only see myself 

Outside I see you