Psalms

                   Psalm 58 it’s amazing how far you travel in a blue recliner – you hold a baby to your heart & you’re gone – mind you there are places you don’t go – stress – strain – busy –…

 Psalm 57 (to Charlie) when i first saw you, you were in a blue pool – your mother held you like you were the star she’d followed all her life – i was drawn to the dark of your eyes…

Psalm 56 There’s so much to keep from this poem So much that’s too soon to know So I turn to you & the slip & slop of goldfish Between your thighs As we navigate the piles of liquefaction On…

Psalm 55 Enamoured by the flame of your red dress I sit under the rustling oak in Barrington Park– I’m trying hard to explain how I’ve done far too much Good in my life to ever do myself much good…

Psalm 54 Hand in hand we wander the shores of Half Moon Bay I, trying hard not to correct the steps that I take wrong While you laugh & bubble along as if we are all that matter & sea…

Psalm 53 You place your faith in the forge Time rises jagged about you What you face is lethal In the bellows & blaze you believe Drop to peppery solitude Till - Out of Africa she lopes Firm Fierce Final…

Psalm 52 I like the way you prowl my office I like your mothering growl The life we live goes on forever – You... flowing fierce on the rim of Nyiragongo Me rustling free in an African breeze Kevin Moran…

          Psalm 51 After you rode the building down We meet in Northland’s Mall – You – talking your dreams of yellow – Yellow jandals – Yellow scarf – Yellow vest – & how you’ve looked up yellow On the…

Psalm 50 (To the children of Christchurch) Sympathy is the elemental Angel who takes me by the hand – Leads me To the small shaken voice of my granddaughter whose ten-year-old body, still Reels from the overnight quakes & the…

Psalm 49 We came like refugees to settle within your concrete block walls – Ran outdoors that first autumn evening to point at the returning V Of wild geese honking above your grey colour-steel roof – When time came for…