DAY 4 – Aug 6 hands to the lectern every day shoulders squared glasses fixed to face the fray say the words he has to say he knows will...

DAY 3 – Aug 5 everything must be re-sized 5K radius 1.5 the distance between me and you in the supermarket queue is marked out clearly on...

DAY 2 – Aug 4 forty-two days forty-one nights to go there’s snow and hail and harsh winds blow and no-one’s getting caught in showers...

New task: to write a poem a day under Melbourne curfew 2020. DAY 1 – Aug 3 fewer curs that’s what’s needed in these new cursed lockdown...

Seems timely to revisit The Dick. This poem, written as a homage at the end of #metoo 2018, sprang to mind in the light of last week's...

In the light of recent events here are a couple from 2 years ago (included in A Day At A Time In Rhyme) and, somehow, even more relevant...

May 24th RAVEN MAVENS every week I see you in your jaunty fashion shoots standing sitting sideways smirking on that chair with that hair...

Thank you, everyone, for all the messages of love and support last week. Particularly to all the first-time visitors to this site and all...

March 19th BLOOD RIVER unlucky street beside the river three houses in a row three mothers who lost sons one to madness one to death and...

May 19th LA MAMA a building burns history goes up in smoke like Alexander’s library a rebuild will not bring it back it’s good bye to...

May 10th LAMENT do you think of me today son do I cross your mind should you find yourself at someone else’s celebration tea do you take...

May 8th IN A STEW blokes cooking up a storm alone in the kitchen in the zone by the stove with the camera and the crew cooking surgically...

May 6th HELL ‘l’enfer, c’est les autres’ so this should be heaven right wrong, Jean Paul Sartre we miss them like hell all those others...

May 2nd OVIDOVIC COVID OVID OCD metamorphosis on TV ID megov tracker trakcer COVID 19 cyber hacker live stream zoom office bedroom work...

May 1st HOW I see my light come shining any day way now we shall be released to face the choice of how to step outside how to go forth...

April 30th SHE’S DREAMIN’ last night I had the strangest dream I dreamt the world had come full stop caught us on the hop it did right...

April 3rd CALM calm stasis and nothing you have done today deserves the trip to bed pull covers over head and be grateful that you never...

April 15th GOLDFISH GIRL hey! goldfish girl! will you never learn look a rock look a rock look a rock look another glass of wine and then...

April 18th To Autumn (with apologies to Mr. Keats) season of what's missed and mellow lockdowns close bosom friend of no-one unless you...