Tom Harding is a poet and illustrator based in Northampton, UK. My first collection of poetry, Night Work, is now available from Palewell Press.
www.tomharding.net
I am also the editor of the Northampton, UK poetry magazine Northampton Poetry Review.
It's hot today. i hold my hand
Against the yellow dry stone wall
And flicker the crumbling clay
Where the bees have been working.
...
In my loneliness
I retell myself what I know
that for instance there is a shark
in the North Atlantic
...
Sat just before noon drinking coffee on the step
I watched a bee maneuver himself into a small hole
...
The world has put itself to sleep
under new sheets
and for awhile we can allow ourselves
to forget a few things,
...