Fragile as a web

Fragile as a web 

My memory is fragile, lacy as a web
with holes
not to be trusted now. 
So I patch and photograph,
to catch ephemera that shimmer 
Mayfly for a day fly, gone  tomorrow
like crimson leaf against the Prussian blue 
then yesterday the sky's light, silver 
twice, mirrored in the sea
and on the shore all flotsam strewn 
enormous trunks and branches 
such giant aftermath
and high unlikely surf.
So we recalled the lovely lilac
sea and sky and Lily's sari 
matching tones you'd think were meant 
but purest serendipity
caught in a camera 
that Sri Lankan day. 


24th October 2018, Hounoux, for Lily 

In Monet's Dreams

In Monet's Dreams

In Monet's dreams the lilies float
in blues and greens and white
and all that's fathomless is still
perfection replicated.
Just so he sees the curving bridge
its double in the water.
By day his vision's blurred like tears
or cobwebs in a veil 
thus brushes, canvas, pigments, knife
his palette, in the jar
the blues and greens and white
again again the lilies float
and in a moment, so!
the genius stroke
he has them oh!
perfection replicated.

Hounoux, 21st June 2018, for Gill Masters of course!