• on the moon

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

  • on the self

    Are we whom we desire to beOr who as we appear to othersThe sum of their desiresThe embodiment of their hopesThe personification of their dreamsThe casket for their fears? ~ CLP 16/06/2022

  • on time

    something will happenspeeds your sense of urgencyso few tomorrows ~ CLP 16/06/2022

  • on evening

    dusk draws up magicStrawberry Moon, dragonfliesour path less certain ~ CLP 16/06/2022

  • on the map

    coasts, rivers, contoursmove over millenniapaper-thin borders ~ CLP 15/06/2022

  • on the moon

    exposed to moonlightour puny faults visiblewe cannot hide here ~ CLP 15/06/2022

  • on Ukraine

    daily more losttwo hundred dead, eight hundred maimedmedia lose interest ~ CLP 14/06/2022

  • on air

    at Somerleytonsky thick with summer’s silenceeffortless red kite ~ CLP 12/06/2022

  • on time

    oh, your majestyit’s been a while since you passedI was in a Wimpey ~ n.b. Colmore Row, Birmingham, 1980/81 if I’m not mistaken, finishing a Quarter Pounder with cheese, waiting for the cavalcade to go by. You waved, I didn’t. Rude of me perhaps, but I was eating. CLP 11/06/2022

  • on life

    having got this farobstacles and odd stumblesI’m not giving up ~ CLP 12/06/2022