• on time

    music ignites pasthappiness written in notescould love ever die? ~ n.b. ‘Heroes’ anyone? ~ CLP 18/12/2021

  • on fire

    winter cold as everseeing shapes dance in the grateembers or old flames? ~ CLP 17/2/2021

  • Over

    the years I forget messy details memory fails what went wrong to us ~ CLP 10/05/2021

  • on light / on time / on fear

    undressed in the darkslid underneath bed coversmade up to see you ~ n.b. “We come from nothing, return to nothing.” CLP 08/2/2021

  • on love

    heard it all before?torn up the script, binned the book?good sense of humour?you’ll need itwhen you find yourself backscanning the shelvesbeing caught by a catchy titlereaching out instinctivelygently pulling at the spinehandling it with respectliking the coversavouring the smell of the fresh-printed pageengaged by the writingchoosing to invest some timeyou take it homedip indiscover this

  • on time

    polite conventionsour coping mechanismsmerely scaffolding ~ n.b. What has form, seems solid, does the job for now, is nothing without foundations. Nuts and bolts rust, we need cement to build tomorrows. CLP 28/11/2021

  • on waking

    another morningnot enough hours to enjoyall I’ve been blessed with ~ n.b. Starting with a heartbeat. In fond memory of Moira. CLP 27/11/2021

  • Apogee

    we can’t get much further awayfrom the summer solsticegrasses tickling your shinssun pink face, a few frecklesbut it’s good to be herewith winter encroachingwith your smilebright as buttercupsyour kisses delicateas sweet pea flowers ~ CLP 18/11/2021

  • on morning

    too soon in my viewnight slipped off without askingstealing dreams of you ~ CLP 07/11/2021

  • Visitation

    Look outside x x the text message instructed Heavens! An angel ~ n.b. Do you ever think you are living in a dream? She kissed me, but I am still not sure if this actually happened. I couldn’t have made it up, could I? ~ CLP 05/11/2021