• on time

    so thrilled to be thereright at the front, watching warm-upsomebody’s grandson ~ n.b. Which is how it started for me too, over fifty years ago. CLP 18/02/2023

  • on life

    temporal beingsphysical, spiritualexperience? dream? ~ CLP 16/02/2023

  • on time

    I’ll never forgetwhen we gathered wild garlicits scent after rain ~ n.b. Picture shows bluebells. Long story… CLP 15/02/2023

  • on Ukraine

    full circuit of Sunwinter never left this landcold blooded murder ~ n.b. A year. CLP 14/02/2023

  • on Ukraine

    and while people diedefending their homes and landwordsmiths question them ~ n.b. I have been writing about Ukraine since the Russian invasion started. One thing I hope that I haven’t done is tried to explain from the West, or anywhere but my own perspective. It is inexplicable, unfathomable, unless you question why one man in

  • on time

    interleaved momentsmusic, football, familybound by weekend ~ n.b. These two characters, in a duo called Squat Lobster, sing their own rather silly Christmas songs all year round, except at Christmas, when they’re busy being family men. CLP 04/02/2023

  • on Ukraine

    frost hard ground brokenanother soldier laid downdays filled with darkness ~ n.b. Is anyone out there still counting? Does any of this still count? CLP 30/01/2023

  • on time

    wear your long black coatpockets stuffed with memoriesfor who do you weep? ~ CLP 25/01/2023

  • on time

    a new arrivalthen a blessed departurelife’s revolving door ~ n.b. Moving in or out, who knows where the door leads? CLP 25/01/2023

  • on time

    different but the samemorning light yet to arriveready to depart ~ CLP 15/01/2023