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Can I come in? It’s not safe out there
…it never has been, I thought I read the news, have seen the stats hear the doppler rise and fall of sirens bouncing off the city walls insistent on untrammelled passage scrambling wits of locked in drivers blocked in lanes unsure quite where the blue lights approach from or head toward, what they are and →
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L3(Day 70): Underground
While we stumble around up here, the moles are busy churning through the soil, turning up the earth into little mounds of fine tilth as they go about their usual business. Meanwhile I try to remember what usual business might mean; try to maintain a balanced perspective; try not to create insurmountable mountains from the →
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On Leaving
Of all the advice I’ve ever had, the best is Close the door gently ~ n.b. Or stay and talk things through. Kettle on? ~ CLP 14/03/2021 →
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On Imagination
Does a line exist between memory and dream? You are still with me ~ CLP 05/03/2021 →
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Piped Dreams
The door clicks a jar compresses the draught to a whistle that wakes me from your arms, her arms, my brother’s hand I held through a summer night in the respiratory ward down the corridor from coronary care where he would be the next summer and no one could visit while he dreamt of life →
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On Memory xiv
Yes, I remember, but when exactly was it? And what day is this? ~ n.b. Tricky isn’t it? ~ CLP 17/01/2021 →
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Thaw as Hell
Then like the snow the next morning you were gone ~ Only traces of grey ice caught in gutters to remind me ~ CLP 17/01/2021 →
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On Memory x
Have you forgotten or have I misremembered? Where came the volta? ~ CLP 05/01/2021 →
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On Memory ix
too hot for covers makeshift bed on balcony tracing shooting stars ~ CLP 05/01/2021 →
Journey of Words 