Body Language by Garry Kilworth

After a considerable gap, we caught up with friends Garry and Annette Kilworth in Autumn 2017. We were aware that Garry was a prolific writer in several genres (profile below) but I had not realised he wrote poetry. Some of his work resonates very well with the themes and aims of my blog. So I am grateful to Garry for his permission to publish one of his poems today and a further one with an unusual Lenten theme in the early part of next year.

Garry is also a skilful photographer and whilst we visited a reservoir-side bird hide with them, a kingfisher gave us an exquisite display just a few metres from the hide. That welcome little surprise seems to have a parallel in the first line of Garry’s poem - and you’ll find the gorgeous photo Garry took of the Kingfisher that Garry took below 

Body Language

When an eagle vaults the sky

or inventive Man spears deep space

at superhuman speed,

or a seed bursts like a bomb

and expands,

God is talking

with his hands.

© Garry Kilworth

Kingfisher at Alton Reservoir
photographed by Garry Kilworth
November 2017

Garry Kilworth has been a writer of fiction for almost 40 years and has published some 80+ novels and collections of short stories as well as four volumes of poetry. The genres in which he mainly writes are: science fiction, fantasy, young adults' literature, historical novels and general fiction. He has been shortlisted for the Carnegie Medal twice, has won the Children's Book of the Year Award, the World Fantasy Award and also the Charles Whiting Award for Historical Fiction. His website, is www.garry-kilworth.co.uk.