• On Losing (3)

    I have a hole here the very shape of your heart where mine’s gone missing ~ CLP 04/12/2020

  • On Ending

    Suddenly, mid-word the ink ran out and just left a faint impression ~ n.b. My pen, a gift from a friend who acquires them from the Lausanne Palace, dried up. Just when I was thinking of something else. ~ CLP 06/10/2020

  • On Anger iii

    Even on calm days Out of deep blue, waves wash in Power diminished ~ CLP 20/09/2020

  • On Pain xii*

    Is my name Thomas? I had to be there, feel it The absence of Love ~ n.b. *Alternative title, ‘On Stupidity’. CLP 04/09/2020

  • On Pain vii

    I pass through a dream You speak gently. Everything is not as it seems ~ CLP 01/09/2020

  • On Pain vi

    And so, how are you? Words tumble from the heart’s depths. Right question, wrong time. ~ CLP 01/09/2020

  • On Pain v

    Do you remember The constant agonies Treated by endless supplies of morphine Or is all forgotten? ~ n.b. To obliterate pain through (necessary) medication do we risk also losing our memories? https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4326982/ ~ CLP 19/08/2020

  • On Endings (viii)

    As the curtain falls Amidst cheering and clapping Memories diffuse . CLP 23/06/2020

  • Dream or memory, I forget

    Aware of wiggles Warmth of your back on my front Tickles and giggles . CLP 13/05/2020

  • Day 13

    The rhythm of the day is beginning to lose its pattern. Middle of night interruptions to sleep come without pressure to return to dreamland. Distance from others is becoming accepted; is there any point going out there? Eschewing television as formulaic, lacking originality, dull, I choose to listen to music. Lyrics bore me. Orchestral compositions,