Monday 29 August 2016

Gene Wilder - d. August 29th 2016

You return to a place
in an imagined world
where no-one can shoot straight,
every night is opening night
and every chocolate bar
hides a golden ticket.


Saturday 20 August 2016

Brian Rix - d. August 20th 2016

A door closes
behind a departing seraph.
You burst in
through a different door,
bent halo, wings askew,
raiment round your ankles.




Saturday 13 August 2016

Kenny Baker - d. August 13th 2016

In the cosmic hereafter
the voice, the face
will be your own.
Metal will become flesh,
the machine, a man.

Monday 1 August 2016

Chiyonofuji - d. 31st July 2016

In the sumo ranks 
of the imagination
some rikishi stand 
even above yokozuna.
See, beyond 
the horizontal rope:
The Wolf in wolf's clothing.

Read about Chiyonofuji here