Remembrance Day is coming up, and I wonder about my father, who died in Normandy, June 1944: what kind of man he would have been if he had survived the war? Was he changed by his experiences of the desert, by fighting …
AN ORDINARY MAN 
if my father
had come back
from the war
he might have
cut the grass
read to his kids
cut dead peonies
continued to write
novels or versed
‘posies’ with ‘roses’
‘moon’ with ‘June’
he could have 
become a Friday
night beer man
loaned his gun
to a neighbour
who wanted
to shoot crows
at dawn
New! NEW! ‘A Bedroom of Searchlights’: poetry. This collection draws a picture of the poet’s divorced mother, an artist with two children, who struggled with poverty, war, and the realities of daily life, yet still found beauty and comfort in her garden, and her art.
1960willowtree 