Storrington
Place of storks and green-
clad chalk. Are the Gypsies still
perched on ‘The Warren’?
Camargue
Flamingo heaven,
white horses, black madonna.
Heart’s grey forgiven.
Camargue
Red dust on the shoes
of Gaditans carrying
Sara-la-Kali.
Storrington
At the age of eight:
the camp fire by their wagon
shed heavenly light.
Jamie McKendrick was born in Liverpool in 1955. He is the author of six collections of poetry. Faber and Faber published his Selected Poems in 2016 and he is editor of their 20th-Century Italian Poems (2004).