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Night at Sea
What can happen when you’re sailing at night and the wind goes from North to South, skies dark. And yes, this actually happened … NIGHT AT SEA wind changed anchor dragged twice brought seaweed to the surface with a lee … Continue reading
Lexical
Dictionaries are always useful, good browsing material too. And, just sometimes, worth playing word-games with … LEXICAL (acrostic) discovering ideologies closeted tidily or inserted oddly with notions arbitrarily regularly yoked A A ‘A Bedroom of Searchlights’: poetry. This collection draws … Continue reading
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Cloud-land
I haven’t reach the point of dreaming about rain, but almost! We need it, the land needs it badly … CLOUD-LAND a length of cloud reaches down wraps a roof-line and takes it up into a somewhere over South Africa … Continue reading
In the Heights
There’s something almost ethereal about looking up and watching a building going up, the height, the spaces between studs and rafters … IN THE HEIGHTS a hammer holds cloud and studs in place where men crawl on scaffolding tying knots … Continue reading
Enter Comfort
It’s a weird world right now, talking to a neighbour with the road between us, spending time on Zoom to be with family and yet there are still joys, if strange ones … ENTER COMFORT we close windows still the … Continue reading
An Old Game
The game of life continues. These days we react and respond at a distance from each other so the results may be different and perhaps hard to take … AN OLD GAME bishops, knights on black and white not touching … Continue reading
Music in the House
We’re all caught in the silences of living, with birds caroling outside and music (or TV if that’s your thing) of one sort or another inside … MUSIC IN THE HOUSE sounds drop until the house is littered with broken … Continue reading
For Cyclists
I used to ride a bike, years ago. I admire those who cycle long distances, the Tour de France, Cops for Cancer on Vancouver Island. Now all the house-bound people who are getting out on their bikes, but still keeping … Continue reading
Windless
It’s weird to wake up to complete silence, no traffic, no planes, no radio, no bird-song, but it happens, more now than ever before. And then … WINDLESS we wake to stillness leaves hang motionless until a leap of squirrel … Continue reading
The Laundry
The simplest things bring the current situation to mind, just doing the laundry on a fine day … THE LAUNDRY clothes in washer colours unsorted soap poured in close the lid turn the knob to full wash walk away for … Continue reading
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