• on Ukraine

    sunrise dulls night’s starsunder lunar indifferenceresistance is allthree years have spunwith nothing to celebrateexcept life itselfthis fight not overembattled Kyiv’s trams will runthere is still a pulsehospitals and schoolsbakeries and street marketsprecious exchangesmoney greases handsmerchants of war grow fatterUkraine their foir grasyellow and blue bandswheat sent by sea feeds the worldtherein grains of truthone man Read more

  • in time

    thought I was runninglate for work, but I wasn’tlucky lorry stopped…~ n.b. …driver error. I sensed he hadn’t seen me. Close one. CLP 21/02/2025 Read more

  • on Ukraine

    A knock on the doorYour son will never returnYou laboured in vain~ n.b. One thousand Russian mothers a day are being told that the birth pains they endured are nothing to the unending pain of loss they will suffer from today. What hollow gains Moscow is making. CLP 18/02/2025 Read more

  • on time

    soft light of fresh dawn birdsong calls us, not alarmEarth’s orbit spins on~ CLP 18/02/2025 Read more

  • on ice

    somewhere beneath lifecontinues in slow motionwaiting Sun’s blessing~ CLP 17/02/205 Read more

  • on hope

    stark naked branchessunshine on boating pond icesnowdrops in clusters~ CLP 17/02/2025 Read more