Taquarius (for Doris, 31st July 2014)
The Thames glides by,
here where boats bob
& waterbirds cry.
From full tide to low
measures the way
the minutes, the hours, flow.
From low tide to full
cradles & rocks the heart
with the river’s pull.
Note: Taquarius is the boat moored at Eel Pie Island where my daughter Doris lived while doing her apprenticeship in horticulture at Kew Gardens 2011-2014. This poem was written on Doris’s last day on the boat while she was packing and Elizabeth and I were helping.