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