HENRY NORMAL | Writer / Poet / Film Producer

AN IMAGINARY FLY CANNOT BE CAPTURED

After posh dessert in a paper dish the debris of sugar scents the garden This instant is an insect Happiness the beat of a wing A lazy summer evening recedes at the pace of a picnic Creation now sweetly attractive our perception of time is a mismatch Tea cups and beer glasses co-exist as we […]

A LITTLE SLOPE OF MEADOW OUTSIDE MY WINDOW

MEADOW OUTSIDE MY WINDOW It’s only mid May but the snowball tree is past its best The dragonflies have left and only the wood pigeons and a few friends insist on being noticed The magnolia is already saving itself for next spring The wind has blighted the upper leaves With cherry blossom now long gone […]

ON STEPPING OUT THE DOOR ALL PAST AUTUMNS INHALED

I wish I’d never before written a poem I wish poetry itself had never even been conceived that I could bring you a gift unseen before God and the angels like the formation of the very first star or the first new born child on Earth but this is not to be Yet there is […]