The sound of pianos on the beach,the fall of rain on the rooflike stones under the ancient waves Your fingers move like lightningthen slowly, touching me gently:my skin tingles One of us is learning the tunesand how to play them,taking…
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It was that profound absurdist thinker Franz Kafka who put it most effectively: it is safer, he said, to be in chains than to be free. Most 21st century activists think the same way. And since safety appears to be…
snow sits deep on the road out of collingwoodproud in the sun but here there is only wind:trees and lovers bowingto the inevitable the sound of the climate laughingas mere humans foldin half under the weight of opinion and the Sahara edges…
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Yet another article has appeared in my local paper on the question of 20mph limits – this time by a motoring writer. I was too slow to respond to it – caught in a 20mph zone, you might say. I was…
Read: What’s really wrong with 20mph limits, and why no-one cares