Wednesday 26 October 2016

Carlos Alberto - d. October 25th 2016

I see you, O Capitão,
bombing through
on the overlap,
on legs that never tire,
in a team that never loses,
under a sun that never dims.

Monday 24 October 2016

Pete Burns - d. October 23rd 2016

All I know is that, to me, 
you looked like a decade
spun round, spun out,
alive, alive, alive, dead.

Read about Pete Burns here



Bobby Vee - d. October 24th 2016

I saw you 
with my thousand eyes
across the Clear Lake, crawling
from another man's wreckage.
Today you bounced 
one last time,
never came down.


Sunday 23 October 2016

Jimmy Perry - d. October 23rd 2016

We trust history 
to script itself,
but to capture
its platoons of tigers
its malarial troupers,
its faded entertainers,
we volunteered you.




Saturday 15 October 2016

Jean Alexander - d. October 14th 2016

The look
Rosa Klebb in a turban
The stance
Boadicea on a diet of nettles
The sound
A pack of feral Scouse cats
The taste
Woman, Stanley, woman

Wednesday 5 October 2016

Rod Temperton - d. October 5th 2016

In the suburbs of sound
your endless groove
was always the best in town,
and if we needed to get up
you helped us get down.

Read about Rod Temperton here