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The clay Moulded Sculptured Warmed Caressed Kissed and blessed The fingers folded Detail’s scolded In frustration Hands They are the artists enigma To build them in a way to reflect a life To show compassion To show desire Hands in motion Yet still Hands that work And hands that kill They are though for today art Art for the gallery visitor The register of culture in miniature Yes today it’s Modigliani and Epstein The Pillars of Tenderness Available at Amazon

Better lines than words Better blind than absurd Cuckold to this life passing by Walking the bridle path While the slow boats whistle by Beside the fields of rye Beside the towpath Dreamboats and dream’s hopes lie Agent provocateur stimulates discussion In the smoke filled rooms Of dominoes, draught bitter, embittered delusion Brighter lights and busy times Brighter whites to blind the philistines Available at Amazon