• on light

    amongst happy throngone woman cries her heart outrainbows come with rain ~ n.b. Oblivious of the calendar, I travelled to see family and friends and discover that Brighton Pride is set for the same weekend. This means a lot of relaxed people, a lot of extravagance and flamboyance, a very large number of police. So

  • on time

    what time was it whenwe stopped, listened out for owls?erratic rain spots what were you thinkingwhen you scrunched leaves down my shirt?quirky love tokens ~ CLP 31/07/2022

  • on time

    what was it we foundeach other or shared moments?dislocation squared ~ CLP 07/07/2022

  • on time

    with never enoughwe have decisions to makechoose to love; choose us ~ n.b. Are we not social creatures? If so, why are charlatans getting rich promoting the ‘I, me, my, mine’ agenda? Time is all we have, love is all we need. CLP 02/06/2022

  • on tenderness

    this lives somewhere within and between usexists not without, cannot survive aloneforms around us, surely not beyond usfear not the performance, fear not the actdoes time and place and circumstance persistto permit retrieval of such gentleness? ~ CLP 24/05/2022

  • on memory

    look at our pictureswe were always so happyairbrush out that hurt ~ CLP 21/05/2022

  • on friendship

    at nights’s darkest pointI woke knowing you were hereit wasn’t a dream ~ n.b. How strange and lovely it is to feel another’s presence despite their absence. I woke, reached out and realised this presence was in my heart. I smiled, returned happily to sleep. CLP 28/04/2022

  • on the level

    don’t delve undulywhat lies beneath the surfacekeeps a safe distance ~ CLP 10/12/2021

  • Visitation

    Look outside x x the text message instructed Heavens! An angel ~ n.b. Do you ever think you are living in a dream? She kissed me, but I am still not sure if this actually happened. I couldn’t have made it up, could I? ~ CLP 05/11/2021

  • on Friday night

    with dance macabrewe laugh at the masque of deathplay Russian roulette ~ n.b. What on Earth is going on? CLP 23/10/2021