Images from Poems
The Happy Townland
Yeats
Friends Beyond
Hardy
Yet at mothy curfew tide…
they’ve a way of whispering to meÂ
(moths were thought to be the souls of the dead)
The Pebble and the Turtle
Paul B Roth
Underwater lay a smooth pebble never glowed upon at dawn from depths well below this sea’s sand bottom for who knows how long until recently when startled by a tsunami it became lodged, quite by accident, between a Loggerhead turtle’s shell and its hind legs frantically paddling to the surface where, loosened by waves washing over it onshore and beside its own egg cluster, it’s deposited deep in sand and shaded by tall grasses in whose midst leans a crooked no trespassing sign
Spring
Hopkins
Weeds in wheels
Shoot long and lovely and lushÂ
(I loved the lines but painted the Echinops instead)
The Waste Land
Umbrella at the Hofgarten cafe
A3 book. Ink, watercolour and oil pastel. 2025-6