• on time

    Moon setting acrossWensum. I wish you were here.Simple, isn’t it? CLP 02/08/2022

  • on getting home very, very late

    ‘Ello, ‘ello, erso what’s all this about, then?none of your business ~ n.b. Nice to see Norfolk Constabulary out and about in such numbers on Norwich Pride day. I saw seven officers, wearing various rainbow motifs, transfers, face paints, etc., interviewing a lone male who had been travelling on an unlicensed electric scooter in the

  • on time

    nigh two years have passedwe’re increasingly distantuniverse expands ~ CLP 13/07/2022

  • on time

    dry flower heads fallbreath of silver birch, a gulllaughter caught on breeze ~ CLP 10/07/2022

  • on night

    step out expectingnothing more than last FridayWhoa! something else ~ n.b. The name of this band is Karma Sheen. They even have a theremin. CLP 08/07/2022

  • on Ukraine

    two helicopterschop, chop across the cityno longer pretence ~ n.b. Chinooks over Norwich? Where will the line be drawn? CLP 25/06/2022

  • 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

  • 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

  • on light

    all you can musterfrom heaven, Earth and watercelestial blue ~ CLP 21/06/2022

  • on the moon

    did you really thinksuch beauty could pass unseenbehind a silk screen? ~ CLP 17/06/2022