thief – Robin’s Nest

Time is mine and that tricky thief of time will not steal it

I am going in to the New Year with so many things lying ahead of me. Not just jobs but things I want to do for myself. These “tasks” or “jobs” cover a wide range from tidying the garden to reading books; from tiling the kitchen walls to doing jigsaws; from redecorating the living roomContinue reading “Time is mine and that tricky thief of time will not steal it”

Fox

by Alice Oswald I heard a coughas if a thief was thereoutside my sleepa sharp intake of aira fox in her fox-furstepping acrossthe grass in her black glovesbarked at my housejust so abrupt and oddthe way she wenthungrily askingin the heart’s thick accentin such serious sleeplesstrespass she camea woman with a man’s voicebut no nameasContinue reading “Fox”