Andrew Taylor
Andrew Taylor is a Liverpool (UK) based poet published in The Binturong Review, Unquiet Desperation, Silenced Press, Otoliths, Zygote in my Coffee, and other on-line and print magazines. Four collections published to-date. Co-editor of erbacce poetry journal and erbacce-press. Currrently finalising a PhD in poetry.
Visit Andrew Taylor's website at: www.andrewtaylorpoetry.com
Chicken Pig
Location locked firm
writing machines hedge
view to fields beyond
green and white desk
chopped firewood an
Autumn testament
first publication tea at five
comfort of audience
harmony of routine
Positioned licensed a new
order metropolis of
possibility
needled incomprehension
horizon signifiers
comfort through summer madness
Public art station walks Palanzana
Unknown Landscape # 3
The Tango Ray and
Air-conditioned basement
monitors surround
postcards shelf stacked
encased metallic blue freed
hotel furniture resting
place reflections on rye
Greenness of canal bandstand
rendezvous isolation
jet watching double glazing
Year of death and disease
cabin walls drip
behind blinds of Winter
Copse lifeless nature redolent
shut down magnetic voices
recording tape rattled railings
Car park light cast glow
empty space years end
lock the cabin door
Dreams of Winter Hill
A Certain Ratio
red letters on the dashboard
flash neon satellite navigation
time zones a freeway
and city
Orange support through fog
bay lights glimmer
Star Room Dancing a hotel view
An equality of emotion
investigated on a late night train
this nature of happiness
an extension of adequacy
tolerable and bearable
search the heart of the other
Poor servants worn with drudgery
sedation not an answer
neither producing machine
nor entertainment
Reversal to forebear
what about a neo-cortex?
this poem of nature
a mere facility of intent
Pale Sigh
Use not restricted to praise a Lord
rival or important person
rather a way to get the work out
accompanied by Grant Lee the afternoons
of birds dipping above hedgerow
Mighty Joe Moon and the Englyns
effort to capture fields before concrete
becomes all
two rows of daffodils line the path to
the Church door
New paths new gardens walks
around reserves waving at trains
falling backwards into library shelving
searching for poetry for continental trips
and theory to thwart proceedings
Saint Etienne and blown kisses
evening after-work drinks
in becalmed bars
Plans for afar gathered around
cases of vanity
where the stray cat was photographed
after lunch-time wandering those streets
shared through phases of bags and poetry
Psyence Fiction and the Cathedral Poems
written as necessity visiting Mondays
refectory warming early doors
songs of the season rise from
the burial place below
of Life
this river stands dry
blossom straddled by
mockingbird wind
Rose scented dreams
horses pass through
a thunderstorm plateau
where moon rises a cherry sky
hint of magnolia
leaves a mountain of memory
fresh flowers an ocean view
isolation a maple
tree in the snow
wildwood shadow fog of cats
a blue sky rosebud child
bluebirds follow to cold creek
hummingbird sunset over
sun into starlight sand and magic
of woods at night
Orange grove shore of rocks
petal horizon tide of
morning this the honey of life
