• on Ukraine xii

    we wait for resultslate Saturday afternoonthis is not a game ~ CLP 26/02/2022

  • on Taiwan

    scanning horizonislanders wonder, Who’s next?others look away ~ n.b. Is what’s good for the goose, good for the gander? CLP 26/02/2022

  • on Ukraine xi

    we retire to bedsleep soundly in ignorancedream through your nightmare ~ CLP 24/02/2022

  • on Ukraine x

    woken by drummingrooftiles taking a beatingthankful it’s just rain ~ n.b. Complaining about weather? If that is all to worry about, lucky us. CLP 24/02/2022

  • on Ukraine ix

    It’s “a matter ofUkrainian self-defence”is all we offer ~ n.b. Expect little more than more hot air from a UK government led by a liar and a spiv, whose political party accepts money laundered through Londongrad. I am reminded of an old joke adapted: Q: How do I get out of this?A: Well, I wouldn’t

  • on Ukraine viii

    it’s been war for yearsconstant squeeze, threats, bullyingnow you choose to see ~ CLP 14/02/2022

  • on Ukraine

    so loud I can’t thinkof anyone else but youRAF practice ~ n.b. On the border, on the edge, on the verge…Russian troops run through a few drills. Here, in Norfolk, fighter jets likewise. What would you be thinking if you were sending your children off to school in Kyiv this morning? ~ CLP 20/01/2022

  • On Display

    finally at rest no need for further pretence true colours revealed ~ CLP 14/07/2021

  • Dream #21

    heavy rain’s half-time shuffle on the roof mixes with the jazz ostinato beat of towering street lamps flicking by wheels slip over pools along the carriageway sheets of spray from trucks misting view red rear lights, pairs of dazzling white approach, recede dashboard indicators green there’s a song replaying on the radio today becomes yesterday

  • In Stone

    What’s the price of peace? From this small village two men. Duty paid in full. ~ n.b. In the churchyard of St. Margaret of Antioch, Cley-Next-The-Sea, Norfolk. W. Porter, Sapper No. 31585 31st January, 1915 ~ G. Mellor, Sapper No. 6743 6th April, 1915 ~ CLP 23/03/2021