After the pancakes
I resolve to abstain from
life’s little pleasures
~
n.b. I think that I may have run out of things to give up since the first lockdown, but I’ll give Lent a go, I have nothing left to lose.
CLP 17/02/2021
After the pancakes
I resolve to abstain from
life’s little pleasures
~
n.b. I think that I may have run out of things to give up since the first lockdown, but I’ll give Lent a go, I have nothing left to lose.
CLP 17/02/2021
Ridiculous melodramas
Between two
Who once dispensed
with their pyjamas
~
n.b. With all due respect to YLC x
CLP June 2020
Game of Truth or Dare!
Which is the most frightening?
Dare to be honest
~
CLP 30/01/2021
The door clicks a jar
compresses the draught
to a whistle that wakes me
from your arms, her arms, my brother’s
hand I held through a summer
night in the respiratory ward
down the corridor from coronary care
where he would be the next summer
and no one could visit
while he dreamt of life and dying
surviving dreams of dreaming
and not divining what was remembered
or dreamt even when sent home
to live as best he might when so tired
of medication and interventions
when all he wanted was to live
and love and still be the man
she married.
~
CLP 20/01/2021
Then like the snow
the next morning
you were gone
~
Only traces of grey ice
caught in gutters
to remind me
~
CLP 17/01/2021
We watch heaven’s light
until heat of evening chills
sleep tight together
~
CLP 14/01/2021