Ian Badcoe Poetry

The agency... ...reserves the right to terminate its staff at any time.  The agency requires your secret pocket phone upon your per...

This is the epiphany room... ...it has to be furnished in this way for you and at this time.  Do not attempt to turn on the light, d...

In the horological gardens : function vs. form The sundial stands in a patch of grass: that is a wabe -- as C.S.Lewis assigned the ...

Making distinctions Some say the gills are grey beneath the fringe and that is how you tell, and snobs will claim the acid-test ...

In the horological gardens : ruderal moments you are beneath a tree; the leaves a semi-parasol; the sun pleasantly hazed by high t...

In the horological gardens : clock tree Autumn The seconds peel from branches stuck at five-to-midnight.  The second hand slows, fr...

On brightness boulevard... On brightness boulevard the sun leaves town precisely in alignment with the white line on the road. The c...

Firmness, commodity and delight... ...was how Vitruvius put it, meaning buildings should not fall apart, be useful, and be easy on ...

Midnight in the house of books An infinity of clocks are chiming -- all throughout the echo of the house.  Feet, cold upon the hallway ...

Voyaging The ocean of ships extends all the way to the sunset, and even now a valiant steam launch may be trying to find out just h...

Communications strategy Did you hear them talking about it when they thought we were not there? About some evil star, some chance, som...

Fifty shades of lime How can one lime-green balloon hang so still, in an otherwise empty sky? How does Antonia still work in the...

An antithesis for every thesis We drove through Wombleton this afternoon, and I am sure that cute and furry Wimbles were, hidden in the...

Some lichen, earlier this year... Who cares for the lichen? Who folds its laundry, warm from the machine? Who keeps its kitchen cl...

When there's a murder in an old, old movie... Please try to keep sand off the body! The SOCO shouts for the seventeenth time. Ho...

Contrary to previous reports... ...the revolution is being televised. Sue has two leading revolutionaries on the sofa; and in a while, ...

No man I don't see people any more, they're all atoms and tissues and fresh angles on psychology and neurology and social ro...

A sonnet on the subject of: "quit", "exit", "farewell", "give up", "depart", "parti...

Engineering ...come with me for there is much to do, coils to degauss and pets to delouse and exoplanets to scope and spectra to analy...

We went on holiday to stomp around our old stomping grounds near Bristol and Bath. And we took advantage of being there to visit a few p...