Crystal Set Dreams

 

 

Mike’s second book with Peterloo Poets ranging from the Himalayas (Hermit – Shingo La / Khumbu Glacier Nightfall) to the Yorkshire Dales (Lear In Dentdale / Haytime).  Less autobiographical than Daddy Edgar’s Pools with more sense of form this is a selection of finely crafted and lyrical pieces.

 

The poem below follows on from another Dales poem, Village Wedding and comes from the almost 50 yrs that Mike has had a home in the Yorkshire Dales

 

 

Honeymoon gone she’ll stand on silent nights

Watching her breath flower in the cold yard-light

As falling stars scratch the lampblack sky

And by the stove, lapped in sacks, dry

 

And warm, a coddled sick lamb breathes 

Soft milky bubbles on the rug, and she sees

The years ahead stretch farther

And more curious than the questioning stars.