
The Librarian’s Lament Copyright © Sally Warrell December 2007
We are the flaming heart Librarians
We love books
We love information

If Every Turban Copyright © Colin Whyles
If every turban
Housed a turbine
That caught the wind inside a cup

The Point Of No Return Copyright © 2009 Colin Whyles
It is hard to put a fallen apple
Back on the tree
So I ate it
Moving With The Times Copyright © 2009 James Knox Whittet
He sat in the back row of the classroom
drawing the faces of clocks, his blunted
pencil rounding a smudged penny,
The Biscuit Barrel Copyright © 2009 James Knox Whittet
It was the only prize you ever won,
that biscuit barrel with the silvered rim,

The 8th Day Copyright © 2009 Rob Lock
They say the serpent was an upright creature
once, lording it in the garden - the cobra’s
dance a relic of this,

Two Crows Copyright © 2009 Rob Lock
Kings of the silver birches we called them,
first time we saw their fighter formations
Circles Of Fire Copyright © 2009 James Knox Whittet
They cannot conceive how it is possible for any mortal to express the conceptions of his mind in such black characters upon white paper: Martin, Martin, 'A Late Voyage To St. Kilda'. (1698)
You brought the written word
to those islands where voices,

Philosophy Copyright © 2005 colin whyles
You cleared the shelves of Philosophy
And burned them in a fire

Response to Rothko Copyright © Sally Warrell February 2009
Standing stones or
Prison windows
The darkening blood