I named him BalwinBecause it means ‘bold friend’He’s much bolder than IBut nowhere near as bald.Hopping into her potting shedWithout asking permissionStealing treatsAsking for favoursFistfuls of fatAtrophied mealsSwell his cropBetween badges of greyNot normally noted on a black-breasted bird. That’s how we know it is himIt’s his i.d.That’s meSays heUnder our apple treeNear to her … Continue reading Baldwin the Bold
Tag: wildlife
Trumpet the Tit
Loud voices, false promises, afterlife in the undergrowth.
The roof rack, the bench, the ironing board, the hedgehog and the fox
Recycling to recycle.
Hoe-digger’s Hog
Releasing a rescue hedgehog.
Midsummer Murthers
Summer solstice: a natural crime story.
Beltane
Horticultural heat, hammock-time again. Flies that hover and can carpet-bomb, hedgehogs braving the road, frogs inside a goblin; and those dusky lips.

