• on payday

    all those hours used upwhile outside weather happensmeaningless tokens n.b. Herzberg was right, hygiene factors, such as the work environment and pay, are nothing more than satisficers. I look at my salary statement and think, I am giving up living for this, just so I can afford to live? ~ CLP 20/11/2021

  • on leaves

    they have fallen sooner this yearand faster than last autumncovering paths, slicking up roadslaying on the Wensum’s thin skinbetraying the tidecreeping under Carrow bridgesailing counter to the current tonight will be clearthe plane trees flaking barkboughs shorn of dressinghave nothing to deflect falling frostcan no longer carry the weight of murderous coldthat pours from the

  • on daylight

    uneasy wakingday stumbles out of duvetcold shower beckons ~ CLP 14/11/2021

  • on mist

    clouding boundariesunsettling settling of doubtssoftening edges ~ CLP 11/11/2021

  • Visitation

    Look outside x x the text message instructed Heavens! An angel ~ n.b. Do you ever think you are living in a dream? She kissed me, but I am still not sure if this actually happened. I couldn’t have made it up, could I? ~ CLP 05/11/2021

  • on colour

    under the rainbowlife exists in bands of greynothing black and white ~ CLP 05/11/2021

  • Oyster

    A hotel in a small town at the foot of the Jura mountains, a small town just stretching over the frontier, a frontier that drew a line between domesticity at home and adventure abroad. With Christmas over and the sparkling street lighting gathered in for the foreseeable future, the worst of the weather arrived. Snow

  • on faith

    fair weather friendshipsnever survive passing stormssunshine after rain ~ CLP 01/11/2021

  • autumn ii

    as if I’d forgivethe discomfort inflictedfor your trick of light ~ n.b. British weather: fickle, or what? CLP 20/10/2021

  • autumn

    come turbulent skiesgive me everything you’ve gotthrow down your challenge ~ CLP 20/10/2021