have decided to collate in one place my experimental haiku style poems, from the making of the recent saltscapes series, written May 17th to June 17th 2009…

from salt and earth,
i made a dystopian green with envy,
and chemistry smiled somewhat slyly…
May 17th, 2009
…

the ashes sighed,
mourning the old flame,
murmuring, if only…
May 18th, 2009
…

a bloodshot sky
hand in hand,
we returned cautiously…
May 19th, 2009
…

in a waterlogged eden,
the birds took flight
on sensing the eyes of strangers…
May 20th, 2009
…

through a grimy haze,
all burnt golden, mouth glistening, black
faces, charred by an obese sun…
May 21st, 2009
…

the haze cleared, a crystalline sky,
salt lakes and tidal pools
melted, into the silvered silt…
May 22nd, 2009
…

a disaster area
belches black
fury inflamed…
May 25th, 2009
…

in ore, the chromium mire
life lies, sleeping
slowly mineralised…
May 29th, 2009
…

the melting cavern,
into saline pools
it plinked, dyspepsia…
May 30th, 2009
…

limestone rocks
salt trails a scar
in time, healed…
May 31st, 2009
…

underground, a stream,
of consciousness
where perception flows…
June 6th, 2009
…

bruised rouge, to grey
clodded clay,
clawed deep, the way…
June 10th, 2009
…

a rockscape moulded
vestigal traces, marks
the slippery way out…
June 11th, 2009
…

stepping on stones, skipping
the sedimental slabs, water blackened
striated, to the shore…
June 15th, 2009
…

abraded, by seawater and salt
coarse skin, furrowed then frowned
at a more polished reflection…
June 17th, 2009
…








