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time-stitch
nine arrowed together by lovers in unusual hours no matter when at coffee, lunch, tea, day, night slipping through urgent fingers grasping at sand they have to make up for these unaccounted moments they could not let pass without finding out knowing full well each tide runs after catching breath in liquid seconds on the →
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On Water ii
a simple pleasure just being ferried abroad afloat beside you ~ CLP 11//04/2021 →
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Do Not Alight Here…
…the sign on the platform read provoking that bloody-minded reaction he saw as proof of living a life still worth it, worth everything worth going to bed with a stranger once more here might be the place that could throw things up burn the throat, whet the tongue revive, refresh, rekindle the screech of parakeets →
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On Physical Distancing
Who’ll help cut me free? Held back by self-defences. What is the damage? ~ n.b. Someone? Anyone? ~ CLP 27/03/2021 →
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L3 (Day 76): Holt
Are these people showing off about not having Covid, or has the local sub-editor got a sick sense of humour, riffing on the vulnerability of olfactory and gustatory senses in these coronavirus times? Here, there is a growing feeling of cabin fever mixed with de-mob happiness. Is the prima donna yet ready for la grande →
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On The Beach
These amongst others Mother of pearl and sandstone Everything but you ~ CLP 22/03/2021 →
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L3 (Day 75): Back at Square One
A year ago I came here to take refuge; it changed the direction of my life. Tonight I am back here again, but without the self-doubt, without the fear of the future. Thank you to everyone I have shared this year with, particularly my elder sister, without whom I would have been somewhere else. ~ →
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On Knowing
All the sky’s power conducted to Earth down this narrow metal strip ~ n.b. As soon as I saw it I knew what it was. I was struck by the fact that I had not been this close to a lightning conductor before, yet eventually recognised it for what it was, not unlike Love. ~ →
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On Change
Metropolitan Police seem reluctant to start immediately. ~ n.b. Surely a positive response would have been to engage with those wishing to hold a vigil and mourn for Sarah Everard on Clapham Common? Instead, the use of regulation, confrontation and force was deployed to try and control and silence these women. Who decided that this →
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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 →
Journey of Words 