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on the wind
A southerly brings warm airA wild stuttering windCrows and jackdaws are loving itLaunching themselves into itRising from the oaks on itLifted by gustsWheeling round the rain stained crown for moreA ragged flock in black tumbleBelow the scudding grey stream of cloudAbove the autumnal pallet of the lane’s arboreal borderThey fly a broken line across the →
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on time
I’ve pondered the matter of lifeLimited as it must beIs there life on Saturn’s moons?How would we know?Evidence of life this far outComes not from twitching organismsNot from a pulseNo morse like messageG, A, F (low), F (high), CIt comes from the decaying remainsA trail of decompositionEmitted from the arse of EnceladusA constant outpouring of →
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on the wing
autumn’s nights shortenhirondelles departedRAF patrol~n.b. There is a noticeable increase in air force activity, by day and night. CLP 30/09/2025 →
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on Ukraine
while shepherds watched their flocks by nightmothers slept by their childrenfathers fought out in the fields holding back the Orcsthe vile and cowardlylaunched missiles and dronesat slumbering urban homesdistractions abound broadbordering on the insanedistractiondisruptiondestructionmore sleeping children slain~ CLP 29/09/2025 →
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on memory
you can’t hold everything in your headbit by bit it fadesleaving flint-like fragmentssharp, shiny, hardwhich are sparked by placessongs, photographs, othersa cricket ground by a churcha roadsignthe name of a villagea street namea pub now turned to flatsa make of cara turn of phrasea nicknamea make of cheesea punk band formed by a pair of →
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on time
we’re saying good-bye todaya friend made through cricketknown for how he bowledbent back, arm whipped roundlike a butterfly swimming strokethick mop of black hairswinging across his faceduring the unusual nature of his deliveryoff the wrong foot, it’s saidface looking down at the pitchas the ball left his handfrom his flurry of arms and legsall too →
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on Norfolk
Top Road, Low RoadSchool Road, The GreenChurch Road, Church LaneNorwich Road, The StreetThe Common, Back LaneDirty Lane, Wash LaneChurch Road, Church LaneNorwich Road, The StreetChapel Lane, The LokeRailway Street, The QuayChurch Road, Church LaneNorwich Road, The StreetMill Lane, Mill RoadWater Lane, Dyke RoadChurch Road, Church LaneNorwich Road, The StreetROAD CLOSED AHEADDIVERSION DIVERSIONDIVERSION ENDSChurch Road, Church →
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on the window
squinting as the bus rolls bycasting its shadow on the glare of glassanother locked up shopstripped of its fittingsmail still gets pushed through the chained front doorjunk and official post gathering in the thickening dustan ineffective skimming of white wash to the glassprovides the backgroundto a final thoughtful message from a member of the staffI →
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on winter
there is ice in the eastits fingers stretch westpinch the earsnip at the nosethe cheeks reddenas if slappedthe call goes upcoats!hats!boots!gloves!secure the stockadebring in the herdcollect the kindlingfire up the stoveit’s time to gather roundshare heroic talessing songs of libertylisten out for wolves~ CLP 19/09/2025 →
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on Earth
by force of armsthey rose above otherscleared the forestsdrained the fensenclosed the landtilled the soilharvested graintamed and propagated the freehunted down the wildroamed the planetcapitalised slaverywiped the surface for economyoceans became their sewerthe air filled with machineryevery inch of land fencedmarked out on mapsdefined their own legalityuntil their children turnedquestioned historywanted more than bread and →
Journey of Words 