of your backside than your face,
kept like a well-tended grave.
This was the long and short of it all;
a rustle of silks, the rumbling pall
of hooves, the going good, the fall.
Sunday 29 May 2022
Thursday 26 May 2022
Andy Fletcher - d. May 26th 2022
to bring a new disease.
Your faith and devotion was to sound
and the spell it weaves.
The studio mute, the tape is rewound;
all silent when you leave.
Ray Liotta - d. May 26th 2022
I always loved a gangster
movie, their abrupt horror,
the unconscionable banter
in the coldness of murder,
such appalling splendour.
Tuesday 24 May 2022
Colin Cantwell - d. May 21st 2022
conceptualised in deathless detail
the gleaming craft that would take us
there, sketched faraway galaxies,
developed from imagination to hand,
Thursday 19 May 2022
Vangelis Papathanassíou - d. May 17th 2022
of replicants and runners, carried
from the studio of this world,
your body now a sweep of strings,
the lush chords of a grand heaven.
Tuesday 17 May 2022
Cynthia ‘Plaster Caster’ Albritton - d. April 21st 2022
how they cast your stiff form
to preserve the likeness of
that final excitement, joy
at leaving hard evidence,
something solid at the end.
Kay Mellor - d. May 15th 2022
the kind where people do
what people do,
say what people say
in voice and vernacular
as familiar as furniture.
Sunday 8 May 2022
Denis Waterman - d. May 8th 2022
Mile End blag’s off he said, tell your
guvnor - mark of respect for your DS.
Slipped him a score for his trouble.
Sweet. Condolences to his missus.
Friday 6 May 2022
Régine Zylberberg - d. May 1st 2022
from Juan-les-Pins to Jupiter -
Sorry sir, too scruffy, too dumb,
too normal. I saw the Queen
of the Night, movie star on each arm,
laughing as she exited by a side door.
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