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Calculating Cat

Fat Alice

Drop-in Centre

Survivor Guilt

Prime Minister’s Question Time

Lessons from Viet Nam

The Airborne Museum, Hartenstein, March 2023

Early Morning Walk

Mitherings

Communication ii

Sock Drawer Poets

Diplomatic Dancing

Old Bill And Me

Debits And Credits

Organic Farming

Whiskey The Cat

Fettling The Garden

Instantaneous

Those Washday Dreams

In Poverty’s Hell

By Steam Train

Road Hog Blues

Interference

Yorkshire Red

This New New Year

Priory Woods 2022

Sovereignty

Tanks

Two Thousand And Twenty Two

Ginger Whinger

Documentary

Turkeys

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Flags II

They lie there limply
Against their poles
Half masted
Becalmed
This windless
Breathless day
As though so drained
Of emotion
They have no energy for even
A desolutory flutter
In acknlowledgement
As the quick lime is poured
Over the still forms
Of the massed warriors
Culled
And this battlefield
Is tidied and readied
For the next time
Half masted they lie
For a little while until
They fly once more
At full mast
As though to say
It is forgotten
At full mast they fill out
To fly proudly
In the rising wind

Flags II

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