• Dream #16

    there is sadness in empty time marked by irreversible movement of hands that cannot be rewound tracking in relentless orbit forward, forward, forward not noticing the swallow on the hedge not pausing at the sparkling brook not hearing the rustle of yellow rattle playing music in the meadow not understanding this is it that here

  • Dream #13

    your careful choice of words so free and easily phrased sparks spectacular reactions at the back of my mind guarantee confusion of sleep with memory in reality you exist only in nightmares in truth I fear you no longer ~ n.b. Echoes of past lives carried in words. History / Herstory. ~ CLP 06/06/2021

  • On Water xxxvi

    dykes and drains cut land deep unnatural slices man bides not for tide ~ CLP 13/05/2021

  • Tiempo

    Caressing the unwilling hand Time pulls childhood towards a luminous edge . humming birds recognise the scent of childhood fears ~ Translation of Tiempo by Alejandra Pizarnik (1936 / 1972). Other and far better translations are available from professional translators, such as Dr Cecci Rossi, who ran a translation games workshop today. This is my

  • 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

  • Sun Dial

    what time was it when Sun projected pine shadows on warm warehouse bricks ~ CLP 07/04/2021

  • Not Venice (Yet)

    Let us not pretend virus is only problem time to regrow fins ~ CLP 07/04/2021

  • On British Summer Time

    Funnily enough (contrary to opinion) it is a real thing ~ n.b. Even in Norfolk, (we just have to negotiate spring first). CLP 28/03/2021

  • On Time

    How much do we need? Quicksilver beyond our grasp Now it’s here, then gone ~ n.b. It took me an age to write this. ~ CLP 27/03/2021

  • L3 (Day 73): Cow Tower

    Over-shadowing this sculpted turn of the Wensum, cracked from sky to soil, it is still here, still recognisable, still standing. ~ CLP 20/03/2021