Old Man (2021)
42cm x 59.4cm
Mixed media on acrylic paper
Old Man
Root of ashy lava
crown of red stone
bare in wasted fury
at a fevered ocean
whipped to wrath
where currents collide
hawking icebergs
from a foaming mouth.
Dogged pounding
is all you have known
scouring debris from Geo’s
crevices flushed to failure
sinews split from jaw bone.
Your own canines reduced
to a single cracked tooth
rotten in spongy gums
ripe for collapse.
Coruisk (2022)
42 x 55cm
Mixed media on acrylic paper
Coruisk
A cauldron of water slaps
black toes of the Cuillin,
stone mute faces funnel
boiling mists, echo
kelpie myths
and swallow stories
of Elgol boat wars.
Enduring extremes
smoke-streaked
tortured layers
of chrome spinel
litter a landscape mixed
with boulder-black
forced intrusions.
I am an intruder
in the cataclastic flow
of dolerite and basalt,
my mind reduced to fine
grains by the towering
wildness of earth’s
heart rock.