The October Blood – Part Two
The true new beginning is to live stripped, willing and wilful at the starving edge of brightening days, where solstice endured yields to winter birthing spring.
The true new beginning is to live stripped, willing and wilful at the starving edge of brightening days, where solstice endured yields to winter birthing spring.
These wisps of disconsolation are a fleeting eulogy to falling, a carol to the withering season.
Does absence becomes presence, a sacrament of holding— latent as I evoke you now and a young girls hand slips into mine?
see us and believe
I curled my hand around its grace; it touched my soul like a mother’s face.
Then when the stars tumble from the sky at the end, our shining will illuminate scars on love’s invincible face.
I will speak out about my city in my ready northern tongue and make a simple solid vow to tell your stories with the honesty I got from you.
I hope that whatever happens in the Labour leadership elections the spectres, or are they the angels of social concern, communal action, and a commitment to again slay the modern versions of the five giant evils, will visit us again.
What is it about these places that inspires a sense of awe. No wonder the first peoples named them as sacred.
I have just done an interview about my life as a poet and a broken-down human being on my local radio station