I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel’s sake. The great affair is to move.
I’m just back from the Cevennes. On the long drive [...]
This grasshopper, I mean
Just in from gardening, tackling the massively overgrown rockery at [...]
Eternity is a very long time
Eternity is a very long time – especially towards the [...]
But one day, I know,
The photo is of a huge pile of socks. I've [...]
A better load
A friend emailed me saying she was feeling a bit [...]
This air I’m about to in- and exhale
Here’s a poem I’ve always enjoyed by Thomas Lux. It [...]
Where can we live but days?
What a beautiful day. Ash Wednesday came and woke me [...]
The drunkenness of things being various
February was an eventful month, in the world and for [...]
As the stars are there
I saw the film Nebraska last week. It was superb, [...]
The One Red Leaf
Here is one of my favourite poems by Jane Hirshfield [...]
