There’s a heavy fog

Hanging in the morning light

Movement in shadows

Lost in starless skies

Lost in a murky woodland

Reeling, sinking, lost

A round silver plate

Plays hide and seek with thin clouds

All the long dark night

Crystal morning dew

Hangs misty on the black lake

Smeared through bleary eyes

Since the Equinox

Beset by lonely questions

Why even bother

Quiet afternoons

Before the children leave school

Doze the day away

Feline rotations

Reshaping folded bedsheets

While I slumber on

Stacks of used bottles

Chips scattered ‘cross carpet

Tell last nights’ stories 

The beats of my heart

Synchronised with the bass drum

A twitching puppet

As I journey on

Navigating with the stars

I ask am I lost?

Cloaked in thick darkness

Between the crawling earthworms

Where files go to rest

The blue morning haze

Rises up from sun warmed earth

A new dawn unveiled

The looming mountains

Set alight as Autumn leaves

I am high and dry

Torn in two pieces

Tired brain pulls left and right

This is all I need 

From the moonless sky

Bones glowing in the star light

Beating hearts laid bare

Cloaked in thick shadows

Lonely darkness creeps away

Escaping sunrise

Papery leaves fall

A yellow mask for bare ground

All return to dust

In your hiding place

Between ancient root systems

Burrowing deeper

Words fill every space

Inhabiting different worlds

Lost in the ether

Summer’s green glory

Fades and burns in autumn flames

A beautiful death

Torn clouds slowly leak

Turning summer paths to mire

Which way will we walk?

Crawling like a snail

Carry my house on my back

On the road again