there was a gentle breeze going, then
the sun came through.

slower morning here today. the radio plays.
dove grey overcast sky. heavy they say.
maybe rain?

we need to concentrate on detail
to describe things properly
need to
go there each year a while
to retain to remain in memory
need to
care for  little things

doubly,
font and image.
to twice the normal extent
or degree.
things happen, we deal,
cards are set, dice thrown.
life moves on.

some folk don’t say much
some folk manage
quite well
really
being independent

now the days grow lighter, my head is
tied back on, and all seems well.

dark small cloud dropped rain.
still, the small birds sing

one slip is all, one step too far, the world turns around .

did i sit quietly thinking
then place a few
things together?

yes

i don’t use a teapot
but evidently many do,
and cosy up together.

we are survived.
light came, we saw the green ness of it all.                          we live in the country.

stains the cup if left standing,
remember the hotel, 1964,
we used to scour them especially
round the handle, then the base.

breaking cups    spilling tea will abuse the hospitality
please come. i have the kettle on.    this is not the time
for hostility

there is nothing quite like changing stuff,
you see he always came on tuesday, but then
we started writing that day, so he will come
on thursday each month.

happy yellow
drawn by the name not just the colour
and oh that name come true.steve

is fading now
yet remains as the description

do not feel so great, again today.

i wanted to be european.

a bigger picture.

has beautiful spots james
while i like any pattern that includes spots
and any embellishment that is bows you
know
yet
i don’t know why
only as i say that
i think i may do
i guess that is a story for another morning
james

was dark blue with a little red added
lasted two weeks and still prominent

serendipidy
all is honesty
i have a witness.

evidence produced.

touch of red
suggested at dinner, to make
a photograph splendid, i noticed
the same in paintings at exhibition.

there was thing

to write about

yet

i forgot

it

tapering off into dots repeated
the fall is abrupt and possibly dramatic

‘ you mean it were the settings that was wrong ‘

yes.

‘so it was all your imagination?’

yes.

when you say gray, do you mean grey, as in lady jane or earl as in tea. when you say grey, do you mean gray, as in mary, my friend? do you mean that we all come from different countries.

we named it best eleven.        dark the day,          we are survived.

light came, we saw the green ness of it all.                          we live in the country.

pool of fear,
the fright of interrogation,
guilt,
i hear.
from where comes the mourning,
late afternoon,
and evening…

goes where it leads me, a kind of conversation between me and the work, but drawing on what is in mind.

“kind of a diary?”

things come awry and we leave it so
the random nature of things
faintly corrupted

saw you fallen
&
photographed you



yet could not save you
nor
any of them

you are a metaphor

comes a wider space, with mistakes and misgivings.
nothing in this world is perfect. it is raining today.

save old card for drawing on and bending about all messy

charcoal gets everywhere and causes coughing
so have been neater recently and careful

fortunate to live in this place where no bombs will take us.

"Is art a box that you climb into?”

“Well, yes, I guess it is. I never thought of it like that”

“Are you compartmentalizing?”

like in a circus those days
now there are no animals
mainly clever folk being smart
or funny

find pieces of jigsaw
everywhere here,
and they
don’t fit
together.

if i try
they make
the wrong picture

quiet slow and uneventful
it left lasting impressions
a simple drawing out

some doubt climate change
despite the science
she says we shall have sunny spells

that crayon is broke
beyond all hope
….

looking up
see rainbows

the small plane still flies over
most days

who knows what lies underneath
here the land goes up and down
water drains
into rivers

yes i am inclined to agree; it will be an uphill journey
for us both.
to learn, to grow

we shall have more drawings
i can see the marks & lines
pushing through
despite the weather

yet i will rather say that all things are
on a spectrum
of colours & ideas

nothing is one colour only,      as decided
in invented rules.  for we are all different

minimal
on the same paper
as before
i understand

do not know everything
only my version

a fraction of the whole
blue sky thinking
here

now i remember that you saw the night
properly
while here we wondered, got lost in our
head
looked up and found the morning had
come pink again
scattered light in particular places
the other in shade

the clouds hang heavy

the mass, the clouds lay heavy, rain that came, that blinded again. blinded those that could not see the love and idle artefacts, each one a statement of nothing in particular.

some make mistakes
i do and avoid the capitals

main thing is to weather the storms
and visit daily
i too lean slightly

tell you it is a full and complicated story
that may upset.
i wrote it quickly using shape,colour,
metaphor and symbol.

the pattern remains the same,
the sentences longer. this is not an issue, and is
accepted gratefully.

they say that the latter will bring immense relief,
to try it consciously.