'Have you ever been plunged under the surface
of your concious life andfound yourself
all at sea,
not knowing what course to steer?

All at Sea
from A Night Sea Journey

‘Then suddenly you know you need
to land, to settle into the hermitage
of unsolvedness, to wake and
pray into the offices of liminality.’
The Edge of Bleakness
Arriving in Magic

‘If you can quiz this darkness of yours
with a tender curiosity, unpicking the
carapace of denial, receiving courteously
the gift that it is being returned to you.’
The Edge of Bleakness
Arriving in Magic

‘Meanwhile Cafe # 9 holds me
in its unhurried decaffineated lattes;
well fermented playlists;
its generous converse, unblemished silences
and temperate unburdening, music laden welcome.’
Cae # 9
from A Night Sea Journey

'This is what the mythologists call a night sea journey,
I am on a gurney bark sailing
through the dark into
an uncertain dawn.'
Anight Sea Journey
from A Night Sea Journey

'The origins of fire
lie hidden in that dark,
secret place where our
ancestors stole fire from
the gods.’
The Origins of Fire
The Call of the Unwritten

'To hold
left and right,
dark and light,
to wait for the reconciling third—
the one who walks between’
I Am Mad - Step One
Arriving in Magic

'Then when the stars
tumble from the sky
at the end, our shining
will illuminate scars on
love’s invincible face.’
Last Rites
The Call of the Unwritten

'Border black
and white, with brown
eyes in my blue ones,
and in his coat
the lonely aroma
of the sheep-filled hills.’
Gabriel
The Call of the Unwritten

'A faith I have found in the pilgrim tracks of
each heart's foraging, to be sung at fifteen and
fifty, that our wounds are our glories and shall
be rung with his great poet's bell at dawn and dusk.'
Visits to Laugharne at Fifteen and Fifty
Arriving in Magic