• Oh, China!

    what alternatives can you offer whilst Hong Kong’s umbrellas protest ~ n.b. pain old as mountains never ending series. CLP 17/08/2021

  • Autumn ii

    your irises contain bright chestnut flames choice of tint for your hair so well matched ~ we sat for three hours before we parted I could not resist saying your eyes are beautiful ~ the season’s first wasp dances like a puppet at my window moves off uncertain where to go from here? ~ n.b.

  • On the River

    casting a fresh line heavy river running slow your smile caught my eye ~ CLP 04/08/2021

  • Autumn?

    there was a chill in the air it caught my breath dry leaves scuttered along the gutter cloud veiled the stars, mussed the Moon Cold? you questioned pulling closer, looking up smile shaping to kiss ~ CLP 02/08/2021

  • On Time

    I forget details You cannot recall the date We both know our truth ~ CLP 30/07/2021

  • On Cigarettes

    he announced I have given up! six weeks and it’s rare I feel the lack I knew just what he meant having given up on us but he omitted how raw that rare how this rare is more like blue there is still a pulse when the knife goes in I twitch ~ CLP 25/07/2021

  • On Hope viii

    words stuck in our throats escape contraction, open our eyes, free our hearts ~ CLP 22/07/2021

  • On Hope vi

    we will meet again that is written, ’tis our fate yes, all will be fine ~ CLP 22/06/2021

  • On Hope v

    light across hard ground miles devoured with smiles alive to what’s new ~ CLP 21/07/2021

  • On Hope iii

    woken by bird song sun breaching the horizon without memory ~ CLP 20/07/2021