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Elmer Sands
Vastness of skyI float, a star on the shallow bayEvening spreads; a deepening bruiseNothing hurts for nowTomorrow? Do not think of morningOf wakingDarkness incoherent, bright folliclesEmergence of coloursLights. There, the red of Mars!Eventually this fadesSea changes; follows the wind. I riseTomorrow will come, for better or worseEven for us, my love~n.b. This provoked by the →
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Raspberries
Late June to late September it read, Scotlandyou showed me the advert and said, Let’s go!We caught the train northone ticket between us and two cheese rollsInto July in white-washed block accommodationa decent shower, where sometimes you left me to wash aloneWarm Westerlies and long-lit evenings brought out your frecklesturned my skin the colour of →
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Absent Witch Constant Spell
within and withoutabout and aboveon water in airheld by limbs of dark woodsspun out in high cloudsin setting sun and rising starsbroken moon on the lakedancing through Alpine mistsunk in thermal poolsstrung out by pylonswith their infinite linescaught in corners of roomsby fine webs I’ll be boundwhile her butterfly wings no more can be found →
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on luck (on Ukraine xxii)
cold rain and Covidare we heating or eating?anything else? ~ n.b. Escape your oppressors, come to the UK. You’ll be welcomed with warm hearts once you have passed HM Border Force with your visa. CLP 30/03/2022 →
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on time / on Ukraine xxi
cash our currencywhile you pay in cold bloodtoo little too late? ~ n.b. We do what we can, but this is the only way we know how. Is it enough? CLP 27/03/2022 →
Journey of Words 