Monday 18 September 2023

Jean Boht - d. September 12th 2023

This is how the mythology starts;
with shibboleths of cartoon scouse,
where everyone is scrounger, tart,
dreamer, schemer. Your open house
was a closed book, and you at its head,
the unbridled scold who baked the bread. 

Ian Wilmut - d. September 10th 2023

From new thought, new process.
From new process, new cell.
From new cell, new life.
From new life, new proof.
From new proof, new science.
From new science, new thought. 

Read about Ian Wilmut here

Lisa Lyon - d. September 8th 2023

See these muscles; once
knots on cotton but now
like moons of steel, gibbous
under the skin. See this form,
bulking, building to true power,
a flexing of more than flesh.

Mike Yarwood - d. September 8th 2023

You were the 70s reduced to costume,
prop and twitch of eye, a weekly cast
of unpersons we can barely recall,
impressions clinging to the ledge of
light entertainment, proof that imitation
was the sincerest form of Saturday.

Jimmy Buffett - d. September 1st 2023

The sun dims over the bay as you strum
heartbreak, smiling at the thought of
a woman long gone into summer haze.
Somebody poured us both a Margarita;
I’ll down mine, and yours, for old times.