• Dream #13

    your careful choice of words so free and easily phrased sparks spectacular reactions at the back of my mind guarantee confusion of sleep with memory in reality you exist only in nightmares in truth I fear you no longer ~ n.b. Echoes of past lives carried in words. History / Herstory. ~ CLP 06/06/2021

  • Dream #11

    Early morning yawning toasty warm honey for breakfast gold finches chitter a black cat stretched across daisies swipes at a curious bee your gentle purring snore of second sleep me thinking we are happy ~ CLP 05/06/2021

  • Dream #5

    Stepping out to find something found nothing, no clues everyone doing normal things prejudices welled up dripping false accusations who, when, how anxiety of loss relieved in music somebody, oh somebody up there likes me? ~ CLP 01/06/2021

  • On The Street, Leicester

    May. Rain so intense it hurts like February. Two tall men stood on the corner outside the mini-mart by the station. . A ham and cheese sandwich with a note shared stories of losing fathers in youth. Two lives navigated by guesswork. ~ CLP 14/05/2021

  • On Dreams v

    I wake to laughter your smile, those beautiful eyes mine dare not open ~ CLP 07/05/2021

  • On Water xxvii

    bent double by grief sadness enough to birth rivers path shadowed by tears ~ CLP 04/05/2021

  • Around Midnight

    timing was never more important than opportunity when hungry we ate out, or would grab something maybe just an amuse-bouche at the bus shelter, a first course perhaps irrespective of weather because hungry is no respecter of climate we always ate together we rarely went without without in sun, the rain, the snow until naturally

  • Ein Deutscher Soldat

    I was frightened, of course, when we took to the air, I’d never flown over the German Ocean before, but I was reminded as I looked across to my right of safety in numbers in this bomber flight. . The Sun was still licking the line of the Norfolk shore as we wheeled inland toward

  • L3 (Day 65): Carrow

    The early evening cloud forms a shape reminiscent of the Horsehead Nebula. The national news today is confirmation of the murder of a young woman unknown to me. My heart aches for her loss, her family and friends. ~ CLP 12/03/2021

  • On Understanding

    What relief there is to know our confusion’s past. For that I’m grateful. ~ n.b. In a complex world, establishing a little bit of peace, love and understanding is always a good thing, however long it takes to get there. ~ CLP 21/02/2021