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on Norfolk
Top Road, Low RoadSchool Road, The GreenChurch Road, Church LaneNorwich Road, The StreetThe Common, Back LaneDirty Lane, Wash LaneChurch Road, Church LaneNorwich Road, The StreetChapel Lane, The LokeRailway Street, The QuayChurch Road, Church LaneNorwich Road, The StreetMill Lane, Mill RoadWater Lane, Dyke RoadChurch Road, Church LaneNorwich Road, The StreetROAD CLOSED AHEADDIVERSION DIVERSIONDIVERSION ENDSChurch Road, Church →
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on the window
squinting as the bus rolls bycasting its shadow on the glare of glassanother locked up shopstripped of its fittingsmail still gets pushed through the chained front doorjunk and official post gathering in the thickening dustan ineffective skimming of white wash to the glassprovides the backgroundto a final thoughtful message from a member of the staffI →
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on Earth
by force of armsthey rose above otherscleared the forestsdrained the fensenclosed the landtilled the soilharvested graintamed and propagated the freehunted down the wildroamed the planetcapitalised slaverywiped the surface for economyoceans became their sewerthe air filled with machineryevery inch of land fencedmarked out on mapsdefined their own legalityuntil their children turnedquestioned historywanted more than bread and →
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on Ukraine
It’s autumn againThe bombs fall faster than leavesBonfires are madeFrom high risesmarket squaresbus stopsand government buildingsFruit hangs rotten in the orchardsWheat turns black on The SteppesThe men and women are at warThis is costing billionsBut if money talksNobody is listening~ CLP 09/09/2025 →
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Every Village Has A Wrong ‘un
What must it be like to beThe Only Thief in The Village?All the people point“There goes a wrong ‘un”They tell their friendsWarn passing strangersUpdate the neighbourhood WhatsApp group when you’re seen outQuestion your whereabouts when you stay inAs the only thief in the villageWhere can you fence the goodsWhen you’re banned from the local?Try and →
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on loss
we burble onfrom day to dayuntil the momentwhen nothing more is heardso suddenlyan innings endsa surprise to allnot least the departed batsmanno calling him backhis innings has been concludedscored by a double chevron in the bookhow out stated bluntlywhether caught, stumped, bowledrun out, hit wicketwe are all timed outeventuallythe sequence of runs marked downsketches out →
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on the island in the autumn
the weather comes tumbling up the Channelin clumps of cloudscasting thick shadowsjacket onwhen the droplets don’t look like stoppingjacket offwhen sunbeams burst through’til the next curtain’s drawnwhite horses riding the rolling greenare broken in on the shinglebeneath the rusting pierblown along the city terracesplane tree papery leaves stickto windscreens, flagstones, the soles of shoesslimy, slippery, →
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in Memphis (2022) / on Ukraine
We’re at a bus stopOn Elvis Presley BoulevardWe’ve been to checkThe King’s still deadAnd waiting thereIn Tennessee’s afternoon heatWe talk of EuropeWhat we’ve shared of itThe moral question?For a young Polish man from EnglandOn holiday with his fatherThere is no doubtI’d be going home to fightWith no thought of checking outHeroic resistanceRemember The AlamoThe Red →
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on Ukraine
24th August, 1991Tearing a strip off the Iron CurtainThe Ukraine Soviet Socialist Republic broke awayNo one said it would be easyKyiv wasn’t built in a dayOut of the maelstromThe stirring of the potThe plot and counter-plotA nation finding its feetAfter decades of decayWith grey painted over the cracksUkraine turned toward the light pouring through the →
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on television
when I’m ebbinglacking the fightto stand my own groundI give into the little screenbecome remotefrom realitywhen I have no moreenergy to engageI switch offswitch onand give into the unrelenting tidelet it wash over mewash away reality~ CLP 23/08/2025 →
Journey of Words 