• on time

    when would suit you best?no time like the present, butnot on a school night ~ n.b. Time is tight, but there are limits.

  • on time

    questions unansweredbecause I had not courageto ask them of you ~ n.b. Opportunities lost. CLP 11/11/2022

  • on time

    somehow we’ll find wordsspoken or written to saywhat has been hidden ~ n.b. It just takes time to get the language right. Non? CLP 10/11/2022

  • on Iran

    let’s face up to factsimmorality police killJin. Jiyan. Azadi. ~ n.b. Women of Iran unmasking them, is what the men of the brutal theocracy fear most. CLP 10/11/2022

  • on time

    we’re free or busylucky coincidencesa wonder we met ~ n.b. How many unknown paths intersect in a lifetime? How many known paths divide? CLP 05/11/2022

  • on fear

    why not come alongface life’s dangers togethernot you, nor I. Us. ~ CLP 31/10/2022

  • on place

    we know each otheryet context is everythinggreeting unanswered ~ n.b. Late October. A warm Saturday night, streets busy with Halloween revellers. People dressed to be unrecognisable. How would I have known who you are? CLP 30/10/2022

  • on Iran

    immoralitypolice shoot into protest crowdsWoman! Life! Freedom! ~ n.b. Forty days of mourning for Mahsa Amini has become a rolling wave of grief as other innocent school children (girls and boys alike) have been murdered by the authorities, with others who have committed the capital crime of calling out the repression of a brutal theocracy.

  • on time

    Run Norwich 10kthey ask, what is your best time?It’s right about now ~ CLP 23/10/2022

  • on Ukraine

    a second phone calltwo-hundred forty-one dayswhile Ukraine’s burning ~ n.b. Defence Secretaries of USA and the invaders just warming to each other? Some marriages have been planned, wedded and divorced in shorter periods. Will they both swipe right? CLP 22/10/22