Under the
Hazel Tree

A place for poems, stories, and quiet reflections.

Recent poems & stories

Journal

Notes from the Tree

Thoughts on writing, wild places, and the everyday magic that lingers in between.

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Story

The Old Road

Some places stay with you, long after you've gone. The road remembers every footfall.

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Poem

Dappled Light

The leaves hold whispers the branches understand, and light comes down in gentle hands.

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From the poems

Six at present, and more when they're ready.

Dappled Light

The leaves hold whispers the branches understand, and light comes down in gentle hands.

May 2026

Nine Hazels

They say nine hazels leaned above the well, and everything they dropped, the water learned.

Apr 2026

The Quiet Hour

Between the last of the work and the first of the dark, an hour comes that asks nothing.

Mar 2026

Bogland Morning

The bog keeps everything: a shoe, a psalter, a summer's worth of weather.

Feb 2026

All poems

They say nine hazels leaned above the well
and everything they dropped, the water learned.

Nine Hazels

Journal

Notes from the tree

Working notes on writing, wild places, and the everyday magic that lingers in between — offcuts, mostly, and things that aren't finished.

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