Thursday, 21 April 2011

Tim Hetherington 1970-2011







Tim Hetherington was killed yesterday in Libya, while covering the conflict for Panos in the city of Misrata. The award-winning photographer spent his career on the front line. It is a terrible loss.

Wednesday, 6 April 2011

the heart

I was going to bury it in my garden, but thought a dog would dig it up.
In a cage it was sad and lonely; the slow red thump rattling the iron bars.

I was going to lock it in a castle tower, but feared a passing prince would storm the barricade.
And in the sea it would only poison the fishes and float to shore once more.

So I kept it in my chest. Where neither I, nor it, would find any rest.

inspiration for the day

Monday, 4 April 2011

inspiration for the day

Hanging on by my fingers

I’m grasping the air and wracked by sobs
The voices are whispering to drop and follow them down
It would be so easy
To let my fingers rest, release, unfurl,
like a balloon of cascading silk I’d float into the ocean.