This is the soft brush

       This is the soft brush

       with sky

                     and land

       where colour

       fixes summer

       almost as an idyll

       of smell

                     and sound

       then paints them

       in a pastoral

       of blue

                   and gold.

  These poems are from my new collection IN THE APRICOT DARKNESS (view the cover and contents below in my recent posts). They are now being published individually, daily under 'recent posts' on my blog and will be available shortly as an eBook that can be read online or downloaded for free.