• August iii

    needle lifts off vinyl arm clicks to rest low buzz of speakers gently suppressed by rain darkening the street tickling the silver birch leaves forming a wassssshhhhh behind a passing car ~ CLP 09/08/2021

  • On Clouds

    paint your own picture or draw your own conclusions aircraft carrier ~ CLP 07/08/2021

  • On Summer Rain

    oh! welcome down draught wash away harvest dust cool our sheets for sleep CLP 05/08/2021

  • Autumn?

    there was a chill in the air it caught my breath dry leaves scuttered along the gutter cloud veiled the stars, mussed the Moon Cold? you questioned pulling closer, looking up smile shaping to kiss ~ CLP 02/08/2021

  • On Rain

    sky darkens, air cools harvest dust swirls in downdraught leaves dance to the beat ~ CLP 01/08/2021

  • On Thunder

    within seconds of flickering shadows on walls shaken foundations ~ CLP 28/07/2021

  • In Mist

    sea fret floats inland draws colour from earth and sky green wheat fields shiver ~ CLP 14/07/2021

  • On Summer

    the heavens opened rain filled in every hollow she’d spat out her heart ~ CLP 10/07/2021

  • On Rain

    thick dark soup of sky ladles out downpour dollops brook a bubbling broth ~ CLP 28/06/2021

  • Late June

    early evening rain falling heavy on hot soil, tarmac, stone evaporates fast, forms humid stock, soured by sweat bubbles up in steaming cumuli that boil over drive down dust, pollen and temperature so that tonight we might sleep unless it doesn’t and the thick soup simply simmers as we pull covers off, ache for breathe,