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On Ranting
When you’ve quite finished look at this beautiful day birds and bees, flowers ~ n.b. NaPoWriMo 2021 Day Nineteen prompt: a rant. Meanwhile here, a million miles away, it is spring. For that I am truly grateful. 😎 ~ CLP 19/04/2021 →
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On Water ix
what falls from heaven needs treating with gravity serious business ~ n.b. Anglia Water pushed the boat out when briefing the designer of this beauty; a water tower needed to create sufficient downward pressure to enable reliable water distribution around this low-lying county. Reminds me a little of 2001 – A Space Odyssey. ~ CLP →
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Look Inside
Unbutton the coat buttons, unwrap the scarf pull off the pullover fold back the shirt dig deeper ease through the epidermis hop by the heart by-pass the ribs dip past the diaphragm get into the gut see what we carry? thirteen hundred and more micro-organisms thriving doing our dirty work while we worry about making →
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On Water viii
a true reflection or mask of what lies beneath? skin-deep beautiful ~ CLP 17/04/2021 →
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On Moonshine
two-faced accomplice to seducers’ silver tongues dusty pockmarked lump ~ n.b. How many false promises has the Moon encouraged forth, not least from poets? NaPoWriMo 2021 Day Seventeen: The Moon. ~ CLP 17/04/2021 →
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On Water vii
East wind pulls and catches ruffles feathers disrupts flow sky colours in gaps ~ CLP 16/04/2021 →
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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 →
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On Water vi
a fingernail caught in momentary stillness beauty of silence ~ CLP 15/04/2021 →
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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, →
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On Water v
electricity flows in currents like water perfect conductor ~ CLP 14/04/2021 →