• on time

    ‘On me holidays!He replied, ‘On holidayfrom what exactly?’ ~ n.b. Good question. CLP 29/05/2023

  • on time

    Remember walking?Sun breaking through fresh-formed leavesAncient paths through oaks ~ CLP 28/05/2023

  • on AI

    something wrote haikuhuman future uncertainsurge to buy tech stocks ~ n.b. Absolutely, 100% predictable, investments in technology corporations are rocketing in direct proportion to rising fears of the ability of AI to end the Anthropocene. To be quite frank, we’re doing a pretty good job of writing ourselves into the fossil record, so maybe time

  • on light

    despite everythingyou are something quite specialbreath-taking beauty ~ CLP 25/05/2023

  • on Ukraine

    ‘Bakhmut is Gone’ nowits name remains on a mapshells have left mere shells ~ n.b. Today the New York Times shows film taken from a drone of the broken city. Three people huddled by a wall, checking whether it is safe to creep around the corner of a block, on their journey to god knows

  • on light

    Life twenty or so floors upMust have some angles not appreciatedBy those habituated at ground levelLike watching the crescent Moon sinktowards the ground floorDoes it ever feel as if the Moon liesBeneath you, for example? ~ n.b. The Moon, devoid of life, full of magic and mystery. Talk me through that one. CLP 22/05/2023

  • on time

    eventuallyeven the headstone crumblesall is forgotten ~ CLP 20/05/2023

  • on time

    millions of yearsdragonfly’s evolutionclose to conclusion ~ n.b. The Scarce Chaser. Increasingly scarce. A female seen today, 19th May 2023. CLP 19/05/2023

  • on Ukraine

    talk of days changesfour hundred and more turns tocounting passing years ~ n.b. We are becoming used to news of terror, criminality, invasion, cruelty. Attention! Attention! Attention! Daily attacks on Ukraine’s people continue. CLP 19/05/2023

  • on colour

    nothing matches greennot even green matches greenevery leaf a gem ~ CLP 18/05/2023