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on friendship
what is it? she asksnot what dreamt nor expectedsomething different ~ CLP 18/03/2022 →
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on reflection
what was it you saw?something you recognised? feared?did you not see me? ~ n.b. Taking things at face value isn’t always easy. Gift horses, mouths, et cetera. CLP 14/03/2022 →
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on time
BOOM!I have time all over my handsit runs between my fingersI walk through Sunday stunnedby the smell of the riverthe humidity of the airthe taste of rain in the breezepeach blossom in the citya bumble bee, as big as a thumb,nosing into a crocus, bending the stalkbusy drinking, as I am free to doif I →
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on Ukraine xvi
Kyiv to Channelyou new Burghers of Calaisheld by paper chains ~ n.b. UK Border Force, your first contact with England; all forms – no compassion. It is possible to see England’s famous White Cliffs of Dover from the French Coast. Refugees trying to reach family members in the UK are haunted by England’s proximity, taunted →