Now our time of winter has come, direct lashings of cold horizontal rain are blowing in as the night grows dark and yet your face luminous and warm, tingling with ferocity, appears as a visage before me and I call your name. I call it again. I open the do... See more
Written by: Richard Downes Yoko advises in City Piece V, imagine painting all the buildings in the city the colour of light. Wouldn’t know how to so I do this instead In Full Accord Yoko time is moving on fast I’m worried to see you like this Shrivelled m... See more
Yanked into sand
By deeper undercurrents
Her heart turns to rock
Through grey glass darkly
In the blackness of the season
World now turning white
Why so shy today
Light hidden under bushels
Shine out on and forth
Psychedelic trips
Leave my mind a wonderin... See more
Remembering the terror of the school register, not being able to say ‘here’ and teachers marking me absent in spite of clear presence
Stammerer’s Haiku
Waiting
to
to
to
not
not
not
not
not
not
not
speak
speak
crucified
me
Richard Downes
17th November 2020... See more
