Sunday 4 August 2013

french bean



cut cook consume
the squeaky clean and hopefully stringless
fine green french bean

radish



the fiery raw rush
of a rapid reddish
radish root

kale



all hale hearty never-
failing kale, hungry gap food
economy of scale

parsnip


its sweet yellow
fleshy roots snaffled up before
you can say parsnip

carrot



wetness of carrot
oozing
in a spicy cake

potato

chunky, nobbly-eyed,



                                                               the potato says 'hi,


                                                                                                                              will you be my friend?'

lettuce




let us consider
the lettuce - dressed in matchless
red green salad-aptness

broccoli



thin dark leaves on
hunky trunky clumps of tree
o broccoloccoli!

courgette



a little courgette
zucchini, steamed boiled stuffed baked fried
goes a long way

blackcurrants



too sharp for birds
almost too heavy for branches –
blackcurrants

apple



out of twelve hundred
kinds of English apple
you plucked me

apricot



snug by the wall
the one the Pennine wind forgot
Todmorden's first apricot

Friday 2 August 2013

Poet of the month

The best part of being poet of the month (August 2013) is I had to start thinking/writing my poetics - why I write, how, what it means - read it and see what you think.

I like the end bit I put

'the mood, rhythm, objectness of what goes down on paper and of what does not.'