Sunday 3 November 2024

NOTHING

Heading home to our bustling town after being perched on the very edge of the North Yorkshire moors for 4 days. Time moves more slowly up here, not least because Time has to counter steep hills at every winding turn. 

I'll miss the silence. 

Sometimes nothing is all you need.

Saturday 2 November 2024

LURING

From the Goth Festival. Whitby.

A man with a live parrot on his shoulder, or a parrot with a live man on its claws. You can wear any colour as long as its black. Two demons kiss by a novelty rock shop. Crystals, jet and fresh sea air, it lures the Goths out of their lair.




Friday 1 November 2024

WAXING TIME





Whitby's cobbled streets

Are burnished through time

By the feet of the living dead.


From smugglers at Loggerheads

To Captain Cook's Endeavours - 

All roads must lead to today.


These cobbles, such printing presses of history,

Ultimately guide me

Into the Jet Age.

Wednesday 30 October 2024

TATTERED CONFUSION

My garden looks raggedy, midway through the tattered confusion of autumn. A season of promises. What has gone before will come again. It's hard to believe when we scan our shabby shrubs and patchy plants, but as the Earth tilts slightly on its axis it gives us all a knowing wink.

FIRST CUP OF TEA

The first cup is the deepest.

Monday 28 October 2024

SEASONAL MARRIAGE

Autumn and Winter are married. Leaf confetti continues to fall in celebration. Poor Summer. How must it be feeling? Dumped for a younger model. Spring catches the bouquet, already plotting to steal Winter, as this seasonal love rectangle slices into yet another wedding cake.

Sunday 27 October 2024

CLOCKS BACK

We've had an extra hour in bed 

Or so the theory goes,

But I awoke an hour ahead

I missed out, I suppose.

Saturday 26 October 2024

ALPHABET DAY

A new day

B eckons


C horuses

D eliver

E minent

F elicitations


G reat

H ope

I n

J ust 

K nowing

L ife

M eans 

N umerous

O ases


P ausing


Q uiet

R eflection


S imple

T reats


U ltimate

V iability


W ondering

X pectation *


Y ielding

Z zz's


* (ok I cheated)

Thursday 24 October 2024

FIRST CUP OF TEA

later than normal; I'm sipping my first when I'd normally be sipping my second or third, and I fear it may upset the space-time teaquilibrium.

Sunday 20 October 2024

TIME'S MENU

What food does Time serve?


Hours d'oeuvres, minute servings, leaving me wanting seconds.