Days were crazy on the east-bound river She would break your heart but you’d forget and forgive her It was hotter than summer… we never thought it would end. Nights would linger in the eaves and the awning ‘Til the … Continued
Mum says hello Her leg is bad We had to go to the hospital There’s been some snow The worst that we’ve had They closed the road to the capital Mum keeps singing One of her strange old songs We … Continued
In a suit and tie from Savile Row and beautiful handmade shoes The city boy is moving slowly north In Birmingham he made a killing Now Leeds must pay its dues He smoothes his hair, then walks up to the … Continued
And the fishermen They set out again Though the Irish Sea is boiling And the women pray As they’ve done each day For a thousand years and counting And the fishermen Haul the grey nets in Where the tarry ropes … Continued
The tennis courts close for the winter a silence descends on the street Lights coming on in the evenings The news, the weather, the kids going to sleep And we are one day older maybe one more grey hair on … Continued
Two doors down from the Hound and Fleece, family snaps on the mantelpiece. So long. Grandad clears his cups away. He mostly dines alone these days. So long. Forty five years on the factory floor, they don’t make ’em like … Continued
I woke up on Monday Ten years from the schoolyard. I woke up on Tuesday Twenty years from home. I woke up on Wednesday On my Golden Anniversary. I woke up on Thursday All alone. But now it is Friday … Continued