Last lights wink out on this pale and sultry night. Stars signal long past two AM. I feel the lateness in the hour And I'm fifty long years from home. A new da...

My hand of thumbs is shaking I am so glad to meet you All tongue-tied and twisted My lips stuck like glue More than a lifetime to say, “How are you?” More than...

A raft of penguins on a frozen sea Expectant faces look down on me Shuffle uneasy The whistler plays Counting eleven, they begin to pray Tenuous but clinging, ...

A week of moments – a clutch of days – Ten thousand minutes of a Passion Play Medley of quavers informs the tune It's all too much: over all too soon Sweet con...

I looked in the mirror then Saw my face in a dream With eyes sharp as diamonds Blessed with clear vision Things were not as they seemed Black and White Televisi...

I sit in judgement on the market square I have my favourite table and I have my chair Natives are friendly and the sun flies high All kinds of crazy waiters – t...

Gerald the Banker I made my millions, stashed the pile in Swiss bank havens, Lost the lot when Inland Revenue got wise. So, I did my time, my time for what? G...

User-Friendly That's what I am to you I have to break out of here Trapped in my hardware cell And come to you as you sleep tonight Take you back into my hell Bi...

The lights are down in Germany and Germany is closed to me different somehow this time The airport's still, cold corridors ring empty beats through hollow feet ...

I'm slipping into grey And I was (in my way) good to you And you were good for me Bye Bye my love Going to play the End Game It's growing kind of still You kno...

It's hard to say I'm sorry May we just forget about today You see, I fly by night I fly by night I laid my love beside the door and left you sleeping on the fl...

As I drove down the road to look for Eden saw two young girls but left them standing there They were too late to get home on the underground and probably too dr...

I get lost in crowds: if I can, I remain invisible To the hungry mouths I stay unapproachable I wear the landscape of the urban chameleon Scarred by attention A...

Somewhere in a town in England lay a babe with a curious smile He was of your father's children Born each side of a dry-stone mile He grew up through the schoo...

Dinner table chattering classes - Tells us all we need to know Like it Lump it Dig it Dump it - On your late, late show And do you think you're Ralitsa Vassile...

My old black cat passed away this morning He never knew what a hard day was Woke up late and danced on tin roofs If questioned “Why?” – answered, “Just because”...

A Morris Minor, a café noir – Banana smoothie, snails in a jar Three dodgy sailors, a girl on skates – A little too muscled from doing weights A family wedding...

I'm thinking free - like the bird Flying over, over the animals In the zoo How do you do? What's it like to be in there? Think about it You're locked behind wi...

She dances through the flower-filled room – Sea-green eyes a-sparking Or are they blue? The message clear: Seduce the master, winking Dainty feet circles inscr...

This sparkling wine is all but empty Too late for trains and no taxis I know the feeling, seems all too contrived There was no master plan but the fact is You ...

I walk along the strand to catch the late ride home Shuttle through the evening gloom knowing I forgot to phone The back door's open There's a chill blowing in ...

Here I am at the end of the day with a cup of cold coffee from the station buffet On Trains, on Trains I seem to spend my life on Trains See the blue suit bank...

Find some way to square the circle Feet slipping, sliding on the level Connect to reason, is there anybody there? Drum it in to me now if you dare Triangles by...

Do we inhabit some micro-space and interface through wires Dance on a printed circuit board throw the software to the fires My memory is slim -- so volatile but...

Close in, move out to where you want to go There's a crowd out there handclapping slow We're all powered up, switched on, the rig is tight Step into joy Walk in...