Thursday 27 May 2010

-34-

bumblebee (2009)
...thoughts are things, and their airy wings
Are swifter than carrier doves...

From "You Never Can Tell" by Ella Wheeler Wilcox (1896)

Thursday 20 May 2010

-33-

beach
Show me your hands, your nails, your scars.
Show me where it hurts.
Show me the wounds, the cuts, the trails,
That lead back to where it happened first...

From "Tell me the worst" by Will Young (2008)

Thursday 13 May 2010

-32-

beach
...And how the silence surged softly backward,
When the plunging hoofs were gone.

From "The Listener" by Walter de la Mare (b. 1873)

Thursday 6 May 2010

-31-

moon (2005)
...Say, it's only a paper moon
Sailing over a cardboard sea...

"Paper Moon" by Nat King Cole (1933)