Artist in a big grey village along the Tamar Valley. ThingDave, 2grow'd kids, 2dogs, tired eyes and eternal optimism. With Marine House At Beer Gallery, Devon.
He spied her through his trembling glass,
His mussel in her hands,
He made his fortune sailing ships,
She made hers selling clams
He gave her jewels, gowns and gold, a town house and a flunky,
He made of her a mistress proud,
She made of him a monkey
Early dark, the wind shut out, the yard shut up and the beasts fed. The fire glowing and silence but for the ticking of the old kitchen clock. Some days he sees no one and in thoughts, slow and deep, he lives a quiet life.
Lady Westcott's Ecstacy
The oily heat of the candelabra, the delirium of brash company and a hand of cards and, god wot, the new footman's unnerving squint.. Twas all too much .. Off she went like the King's rocket...
Farmer Wants A Wife. Harvest time, the stooks are golden flames tight bound, the sun goes down beyond the woods and Wesley has a throat full of dust and a heart full of lust and lonesome longing
The shadow of stooks and hedges, silence but for the crackle of a straw breast as she presses, hears the earth's heart beneath her boots. A tryst unseen by the dozing villagers, by the sleeping farmdogs, by the dreaming sheep, illuminated only by the watchful eye of the Moon.