• The Sheepish Inspector Clueslow

    I had pulled on a sock when came a knock that morn at six o’clock I got a shock at my door stood a flock of lambs and rams and ewes “Why have you no shoes? This does not amuse when we bring news of developments and clues.” Encouraged to dash I dressed in a

  • On Water vi

    a fingernail caught in momentary stillness beauty of silence ~ CLP 15/04/2021

  • Night Words After The Diner

    The whisky went straight to my legs my eyes, my arms, my tongue I was experiencing things differently Felt Earth spinning off its axis It became a place I did not know Did I need more drinking practice? ~ n.b. Night photo was taken to capture the empty street scene, but it came out weird,

  • On Water v

    electricity flows in currents like water perfect conductor ~ CLP 14/04/2021

  • Beneath Blossom

    In April’s last bright shower of white pear petals she took him gently laid on daffodils that soothed winter’s heartache so by January next they had their son ~ n.b. NaPoWriMo 2021 Day Fourteen a poem from a first or last name: i) Perry from the Welsh patronymic ‘ap Henry’ / son of Henry. ii) Perry

  • On Water iv

    streaked willow shade riffled river disrupts light sun flakes; sparks from flint ~ CLP 13/04/2021

  • TOMORROW’S NEWS TODAY

    will be much like yesterday’s not so different from that to be disseminated the day after tomorrow . World’s Biggest Rabbit still stolen very old Greek man still awaits burial . Pyroclastic clouds over St Vincent as La Soufrière fumes . latest football results different combinations same names reconfigured numbers keep population happy with games

  • On Water iii

    great crested grebes dance like that Sunday afternoon when our hearts dove-tailed ~ n.b. Somewhat hidden by the willow branches, but they are there…promise. CLP 12/04/2021

  • time-stitch

    nine arrowed together by lovers in unusual hours no matter when at coffee, lunch, tea, day, night slipping through urgent fingers grasping at sand they have to make up for these unaccounted moments they could not let pass without finding out knowing full well each tide runs after catching breath in liquid seconds on the

  • On Water ii

    a simple pleasure just being ferried abroad afloat beside you ~ CLP 11//04/2021