James Garratt – A life lived and recorded in ink since 1992
My name is James and this personal website is an attempt to archive my writing which predominately is (under a loose banner) poetry
I started writing things down at the age of 17 in 1992, initially with no other idea of plan then to keep a record of my thoughts and feelings. Given my growing up experiences it felt like the perfect way to apply some self help therapy
Others
have put on a brown coat
and barely
managed to look after the shop.
I know,
I am a silly man,
or a silly boy,
with silly eyes
and silly plans.
The Swings Here we go,I am sat on the swings.The other adultshang onto the roundaboutor,more often than not,the slide.But then,they…
and political spectrums
shed no light.
The hills are a range
which stretch from left to right.
I slowly built up
the bits that had fallen down.
The world
feels different to me,
so much different
from when,
as a child,
Feel strange,
and strangely caught
by so many different lights.
I live,
with the buildings I tore down.
I live…
I live with the decisions I have made
Because my trauma upbringing
finds itself
in a form of free‑flowing rain
Safe in the tumble down house,
with the cracked wooden unit,
as Wake Up Little Suzy plays on a forgotten stereo.
