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on summer
talk of clear blue skyand here it is, like crystaldevoid of hirundines ~ n.b. Where are the swallows, martins and swifts? I was lucky enough to hear their familiar squeals, then count seven swifts later this evening, but not a swallow or martin, above the houses, or down by the lakeside earlier. CLP 24/06/2022 →
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Contactless / Miradas-19
A pamphlet containing five of my poems from the first Covid-19 UK lockdown has been published in the ‘Unmasked Writings’ series by Egg Box Publishing of Norwich. The experiences of those days seem quite distant now. Having WordPress and you, its lovely online readers and writers, was a central part of the experience and crucial →
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on the moon
did you really thinksuch beauty could pass unseenbehind a silk screen? ~ CLP 17/06/2022 →
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on evening
dusk draws up magicStrawberry Moon, dragonfliesour path less certain ~ CLP 16/06/2022 →
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June
in Englandexam halls fullbiros scribblinghumidity and heatsomeone decreed the tie must be wornthey will hear nothing of the larkcatch not the cuckoo callingcannot simmer in the slow burn to Solsticethe ticking clockninety minutes of mathematicsa pair of blackbirds flush out the jayheron stalking by the weirdeep dwellers snapping at surface midgesreeds revelling with rainbow trouttwo →
Journey of Words 