• On Endings (ix)

    Click, clunk! Home alone Empty of the stuff of life Tears stain bared floorboards . CLP 23/06/2020 Read more

  • On Endings (viii)

    As the curtain falls Amidst cheering and clapping Memories diffuse . CLP 23/06/2020 Read more

  • Empty Vessels

    These screaming fighter jets Ripping through Norfolk’s skies Tearing up clouds Dampen the shush of the sea Throw weighted blankets over shuffling leaves Silence the brushes of barley Suppress the moans of damp Westerly blows So all I can hear are fingernails scraping Out the chamber walls of my heart . CLP 29/06/2020 Read more

  • On Endings (vii)

    Agreed, signed and sealed Annulment of hopes and dreams Gold turns to paper . CLP 22/06/2020 Read more

  • Smokin’

    ~ The evening the supermarket burnt down Four miles away in the town up the road Its smoke funnelled out to the coast Streamed high across the marsh Curled beneath a front pushing from the west Where the lofty plume lost height over the cool sea Shadowed the sunset and emerging night Carrying smells of Read more

  • On Endings (Bonus Track)

    Time is of essence Is it too early, or too late? Or, a complete waste? . CLP 28th June 2020 Read more