• on Ukraine

    rocking in the ringthunderous blows, staggering hitslack of knock-out punch ~ n.b. Slow, painful deaths. CLP 25/07/2023

  • on Ukraine

    US cluster bombsfragmented moral high groundindiscriminate ~ n.b. What other disgusting inventions are being picked out of the warehouses of the industrial military complex in the name of freedom? CLP 08/07/2023

  • on Ukraine

    murder their parentssteal children and grandchildrennot content to kill ~ n.b. If you made this stuff up, people would condemn you as a sicko. Well, this is Russia and consequences of their ‘military operation‘. I note Switzerland is supporting an international air defence programme now. Even the discreet, courteous, stable, confidential, neutral Swiss, who take

  • on Ukraine

    everyday peoplevisit the pizzariafamilies sliced apart ~ n.b. Kramatorsk’s pizzeria, a popular venue, often used by foreign journalists, was blown to pieces today while people were sitting down to eat. The criminals have resumed their murderous business, after fighting each other briefly, like rats in a sack. The slaughter of children out with their parents

  • on time

    there we are then, here, for nowback where we were beforein perpetual orbit on different pathsso handsome together, so brightMoon and Venus dancing aroundeach other, with no risk, nor any hopeof ever crossing paths ~ CLP 23/06/2023

  • on Ukraine

    day four-seven-onewar becomes wallpaperpeople switch off news ~ n.b. It now takes something outrageous to re-capture attention, a dam being sabotaged and subsequent flooding, for example. The daily tally of lost civilians, a grandmother here, a child there, becomes unremarkable. ~ CLP 09/06/2023

  • on distance

    we both see the Moonwatch the Evening Star descendwish on shooting stars – n.b. Kilometres dissolve. CLP 31/05/2023

  • on Ukraine

    ‘Bakhmut is Gone’ nowits name remains on a mapshells have left mere shells ~ n.b. Today the New York Times shows film taken from a drone of the broken city. Three people huddled by a wall, checking whether it is safe to creep around the corner of a block, on their journey to god knows

  • on time

    eventuallyeven the headstone crumblesall is forgotten ~ CLP 20/05/2023

  • on Ukraine

    talk of days changesfour hundred and more turns tocounting passing years ~ n.b. We are becoming used to news of terror, criminality, invasion, cruelty. Attention! Attention! Attention! Daily attacks on Ukraine’s people continue. CLP 19/05/2023