The Poems of David Garlick
Where have you been? Where have you been? Had you forgotten me! I feared you went where fragrant scent is lost on dewy ground. I feared you lost. I feared you gone. I feared you would not come. I feared the days sun up, sun down would never bring you home. I […]
Burdened with groceries we crossed the road. Look right, look right, the traffic comes from there. And then a waif, in tears. “Come quick, come quick,” he said. “Me mum ‘as ‘ad a fit. She’s a laying over there.” We ran, there she was, down on the ground, shaking, out for the count, an […]
It was a long time ago, since I had last seen them. Then I had been almost four and many years had fluttered and flown away, leaving me old and forgetful. Now there are grandchildren older than I was then. Visited, there they were. Blue under a tall shrub, by the wooden gate […]
Long ago I looked at tiny you. Who are you, I thought? Are you really my grandchild? Are you really part of me? So small, so perfect, so bright, so much an individual. How can this be, so soon? Where did you learn so much? Now you are grown up. An art […]