The Poems of David Garlick
As I lie, unsleeping or walk my dog, Shadow, alone, through woods or other tranquil places, my mind churns with thoughts and scenes of long ago or as a break in an opaque fog; to understand that which was once unfathomable. The thoughts, a concrete mix of words and ideas, rumble and scratch, polishing, […]
News and views and weather stats. Comments, characters and such. Sports and business; it’s the same. Doesn’t seem to matter much. Now and then traffic reports. Commuters phone from where they be. Cellular keeps all in touch, with Victoria’s C.B.C. Snarls in snarls, a way of life. Edgy edging foot by foot – […]
Britain has many mysteries but the strangest one of all. Is how to make the plumbing work in the small room down the hall. Some you pull and some you push and some will need a special touch. But you are not sure of success until you here that welcome flush. Also beware that […]
In ancient times great caravans of camels, horses, mules and men, marched in swaying unison across the great plains of the world. Camels with supercilious stare. Arab horses, tails held high. The plodding mule in stubborn mood and merchants in their flowing robes. The railways brought a faster pace to the trade […]