Les Rempart des Beguines was the last movie That Stephen watched before his accident He was in love with Anicee Alvina And kept a photo of her in his wallet I did not learn of this until many years later When his sister told me after a chance meeting in London Stephen was a better […]

Poetry indeed keeps you sane as you travel to places that others neglect   Not even the most beautiful women is more beautiful than God’s house   I have been in exile for many years but have never left my home   Butterflies have no concept of mortality or beauty   I wonder if I […]

Your son is on the barbed wire Mrs White His war is over he will no longer fight He was lost to a cause that he thought was right But that is of scant comfort to you now Mrs White     This undated anti-war poem was written on a scrap of paper and found […]

In 1922 a horse called Pogrom won the Coronation Stakes at Ascot How did you know that It was noted in The Times today I used to live in Ascot and my husband played football on a pitch in the middle of the racecourse What position did he play He was a goalkeeper How did […]

Liberate yourself from other peoples eyes Do not worry about their shift Just thirty years ago Nobody gave a damn Today it is a defiant act You live in your dwelling It is all you have so cherish it And it will cherish you Feminism is a myth It is all about you     […]

Two Gentlemen of Verona Although well known this play has a rather obscure history and is thought to have been written between 1594 and 1595 and there is no firm record of it being performed in its entirety until 1762. This said it has been noted that Two Gentlemen of Verona has certain similarities to […]

When I was younger I lived in a large house on the Swiss/French border A railway ran through the valley and I often lay in bed listening to the night trains scream past My father was a diplomat and my mother was an actress whose filming commitments used to mean that we were often left […]

There is a Green-Headed Tanager in my Lady-Garden Whose visit I warmly welcomed but I found it a little strange As these beautiful birds normally live in the humid forests of Brazil I asked you for your deepest thoughts but you told me That you were rather busy preparing for our sunshine holiday     […]

Last night we reinvented our love After watching Last Year at Marienbad At the Roxy   The fisherman’s hut was decaying rapidly And the hung nets Were beginning to resemble A shroud   I have a brown dog It is called Leave my Little Earth Behind   Then Peter got down Out of the boat […]

I am told that I have have Spanish blood in my veins My father informed me of this when I was very small He said that his maternal grandfather had been born in Sevilla in 1871 I have never visited this city Although I intend to do so in the very near future Perhaps I […]