This began as a game some bloggers played in 2008, to write about people who'd made an impact, in the same number of words as one's age, every day for a year. I did them less often and went on longer, adding one word each birthday. I stopped in 2016 and incorporated them into my main poetry blog. In 2019 I resumed the project and gave it its own blog again, with a new name, where it may unfold at its own (slow, intermittent) pace. I've labelled these verse portraits, but they're more like quick sketches: mere glimpses, impressions....


Saturday 5 July 2008

Flint

I kept seeing you
before I even knew
there was a you,
walking with me
down to the road
for the morning paper.
I got colouring, height,
even your approximate age.

When you turned up at my door
thin and rather scruffy,
'You’ve been homeless a while
haven’t you?' I said,
bringing you in for a drink.
Then I looked again.
'Oh, it’s you,' I said.
'You’ve arrived.'



[Poem #7]

Disclosure:
I can name this one because 
a) he’s long dead now, after a good life, and
b) he was my wonderful dog.
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