COVID-15

When will I see this bridge again?

September 2009

COVID-14

7. to let you in: knock down the walls; drain the moat; stand down the cavalry.

July 2020

COVID-13

3012 3021 3032 3038 3042 3046 3047 3055 3060 3064

June 2020

COVID-12

misreading.  Or sums calculated determined to arrive at an answer I wanted.  Not a real answer. Fabricated, made up.  To change the answer to an equation the question has to be rearranged.  A new trajectory devised.

sometime in the 1990’s

COVID-11

Tuesday 2nd June

COVID-10

This is why events unnerve me
They find it all, a different story

June 2020

COVID-9

'I will write to you
and tell you what I cannot say'

too late,
too late
now

December 1984

COVID-8

people are outside, gathering
in these last days of Autumn
for the first time in two months I hug someone (Cole)
viral, this
opening up
is touching us all

May 2020

COVID-7

Penn Station, and as loud. Stations? Fourteen - that old martyr routine, guy on the side walk shouts, ‘Lady, all that dead wood you’re carrying around’.

2010, month unknown

COVID-6

the house when I return is cold, and dark. 5.26pm: the sea from the kitchen window sinks into the sky. the weight of the water. the shapes beneath prehistoric

harp on extinction

June 2017

COVID-5

it’s not that you love me, it's how you love me
and a virus works the same way
inching closer, then, the mad scramble away

November 1994 | May 2020

COVID-4

A thought stops me.  What if you work out where I am?  What if you launch a boat and sail towards the island?  With this thought I start to dig.  Down into the soft dark soil, down like a rabbit, down like Wonderland

July 2012

COVID-3

to stop, and shut the whole thing down

April 2020

COVID-2

coordinates

I wish I had a map and instruments to measure the exact place the furthest distance from you.  I imagine a small desolate island.  Cold and barren.

July 2012

COVID-1

I miss people, indifferent to distance

April 2020