Carol Thistlethwaite
Author, reviewer and creative writing tutor, her first individual collection, From The Field Book, was published in March 2008 by BeWrite Books.
Carol has also published several books for adults who are learning to read (Avanti Press), has read on Radio Lancashire and Radio Merseyside and had poems published in magazines and anthologies. She reviews for Carillon.
www.bewrite.net/authors/carol_thistlethwaite.htm
http://fromthefieldbook.blogspot.com/
MERLIN
when flocks flutter,
stutter the
sky,
you know she’s there,
when grass gasps,
crouching unease,
you know she’s somewhere there.
she holds your breath
as you scan the scene
for a dot in sun,
a pause on a post,
talons clasp the beat of a heart,
future and past are scratched on an eye,
as feather and bone shake,
e v a porate
ANOTHER PLACE
(Gormley Statues Crosby 25th June 2005)
One hundred naked men,
bolted into place,
their futures cast in iron,
to adorn a Western shore.
Dignity withdrawn,
mouths moulded shut,
they struggle like Cnut
against world trade rules.
Between them ringed plover
pick the mud for food,
still wearing the shadows
of shackles round their necks.
One hundred rusting faces
stare across the sea,
their fixed hollow eyes
find only sinking suns.
