Stuart Miller-Osborne

The light is impossible But as real as the sea My sadness evaporates

I love Italian Railway Stations When featured in black and white movies Cora is asleep next to me A movie made in the nineteen sixties Has just been shown on television It was about a woman whose husband Introduces her to odd sexual activities She meets a student and has a short affair He is…

I live in a beach side shack With two coastal cats Lime & Sea One is black And the other is white The fight constantly But Sea always wins As he has much more upstairs Lime does not question The dominant narrative Whereas Sea thinks in the round Although totally different Cats can be very…

The photograph of its impossibly vacant streets was taken at night This was my first visit to the city I was born in Bath I have visited York I live in Canterbury

Everybody has seen your legs Julie There is no need to cover them With long cotton dresses I own a boat named Jonathan Which I rent out to visitors Our railway station Has views of the sea I used to work there Before university There are six cigarette machines In the town centre Which is…

There is a hot plume Approaching us You look at the Eucalyptus Trees Your freckled nose twitches As the air is changing This is the music of summer

You are sleeping In the shadow Of a purple tree I place a sheet Of purple rice paper Over the sun You wake up And tell me That you had Only purple dreams After swimming In the purple river

My brother Stephen was born on the 29th of August 1954 He died on the 17th of September 1973 Our father was born of the 30th of June 1926 He died on the 9th of June 1996 Twenty-one days short of his 70th birthday If Stephen had not been killed on that cool September evening…

In January I was walking my dog On the edge of a summer cornfield When we were both hit by a car My dog was killed outright And I although cut and bruised Was otherwise uninjured The driver of the car had been drinking And was sent to prison for a year Last week I…

How do you date a mouse Julie That is easy Is it Yes Find a saucer and add some cheese You then put on your glad rags And take me to the cinema