Tim Jones: Books in the Trees

  I'm the guest poet at Music & Poetry at the Metro this coming Sunday, 1 April. Here's the lineup: Guest Musicians: Ramon O...

  Fallen Driving through Mandeville. Empty windows, empty houses, a craft shop sprung like fungus from the bones of the dying town. T...

  It's a meat market in here. Why girls as green as grass Should dance to the songs of a man ten times their age Climb on their boyf...

  Men of Middle Earth sounds like a good idea for a calendar, actually - although Dwarves of Middle Earth would be more appropriate in th...

          The first appearance was a pair of tall pants that came all the way from Germany, with two fashionable legs of beige suede stand...

  There are some things to dislike about summer nearing its end, but one of the good things is that, as the days draw in, the monthly poetr...

  Note: This is a poem I wrote in response to the Christchurch earthquake of February 22, 2011. I thought it was appropriate to re-post it...