Poems by Julie Rutherford

Come Rhiannon

forget, the blackbirds
...

I don't want to see
Your medals
Or letters from Churchill
Praising your bravery
And saying
W...

Woodpecker tapping
Surprises me
Out of solitude When I wake
Nothing..
Heavy mist over...

I am, the woman who..

&...

On the marshes,
in the darkness,
before,
&...

Like an anchored weight
my mind, my heart, my soul
lies on the ocean floor
unable to breathe...

Solitude,
...

Stay,
sighs the leaf

Stay,
...

Skeletons, of two stags
antlers locked
into eternity In the overgrown cemetery
smell...

In the winter's sun reflection
the red sky
I am blinded,
the wild geese silhouetted
unassail...

A whale's tooth
Lays on the window sill,
There’ s a row of them..
Not for us
China and...

What am I to say to this?
that you spent a night
in a cave
with a wonderful woman
Calypso lik...