The Robin Hood Anthology- poetry against austerity
is now published and available from

http://www.therecusant.org.uk/#/the-robin-hood-book/4563100507

I have two poems in the book both of which feature in THE TIME OFFICE.

http://www.redsquirrelpress.com/index.php?timeoffice

In the dark hours
wind hollows skin
tight as a drum,
this is the time
when we hold on.

In the dark hours
watch figures climb,
fill fingernails,
scratch against doors
closed long ago.

Tom Kelly

Wondered

He shook hands with everybody,
kissed the office girl blushing to the roots
of her peroxide hair. Had a fixed smile,
waved too readily for comfort.

“I’ve always worked,” he said. “I know,” I didn’t say.
Platitudes came easily.
We got back to tidying desks,
looking earnestly at the clock, checking watches:
I wondered what he would do.

strong>Tom Kelly