Jane's Writing Shed.

I was delighted to win the Wigtown Poetry Competition (Main Prize) with Eel Ghazal in October 2012. A brown eel caught itself on a casually thrown hook, Anguilla anguilla where are all the marshland glass wrigglers? weir and dam,net trap and poison you slithery boy as tricky as a spiv closing in on the next deal. Brown fen lurker,yellow canal threader,green mud swimmer, an elusive thought slipping in and out like a rumour. Surreptitiously you respond to an ancient voice, the Sargasso pulling you back into its mysterious stillness. Only your offspring return,catching the current - eel breed,eel feed for all your lives, for all of your long dark lives.