Tuesday 14th April
07:16 - 08:00, wind SW 2 gusting 3, temp 0C (feels like 0)
In the absence of the Prime Minister his deputies are judged wanting
to and From the south haven
a frost glAzes car windscreens
two song thrushes lIsten pick and hop
woodpigeon fLies from a car roof
moving in a dog-walker hIatus
a small blue and oraNge male
a lady a black lab and a yellow baG deliver papers
a neat allotment has a porTico
crossing the road in lOckdown rush hour
great tit song bounDs above the path
my first willOw warbler sings
flowers grow in Two wheelbarrows
perhaps the thrushes Have been arriving
the climbEr lines the side gutter
Jaded garage doors
an overgrOwn alleyway
the green distribution Boxes hum
Wednesday 15th April
06:45 - 07:27, wind W 3 gusting 4, temp 6C (feels like 3)
Some on low incomes are having to choose whether to eat or not
a figure of eight through the North
a hedge sprouts green thrOugh old copper
a useFul mirror trapped in a skip
a camelia’s pink is brOwned by frost
pavement trees are tOo low
boxes for birDs and bats
blackbird Flutes as sparrows chirp
a pond by an abandOned bowling green
peeling door fRame uncut grass
ferns grow from the mortAr
of a house Wall
a pope picture in tHe car’s back window
narrOw pavement …
on beLle vue
gulls circlE calling
an alley of windows on garDens
the trAffic pulse on the high street
a friendlY wave from a jaguar
Thursday 16th April
04:50 - 05:35, wind NNW 1 gusting 3, temp 4C (feels like 4)
There is a dawning realisation of the somehow unanticipated carnage
being wreaked in care homes
along and down to sOuth haven
walking in naUtical twilight
wagons noise Their way along the road
blackbird melOdy in full flow
rooFtop silhouettes sing and sing
the darkness feedS the dawn with song
beyond the lIne of houses a metro trundles
a thrush dimly lands on the verGe
distant lights of seetHing traffic
words Through an open window
blaCkbird wren and great tit
as if by some common consent A quieting falls
the late choRus of the woodpigeons
birds ghost thEir way across the grass
sHapes swoop
and drift thrOugh the gathering dawn
a crescent Moon rises in the south
wrEns zip
below circling gullS
Friday 17th April
07:08 - 07:52, wind E 2 gusting 4, temp 7C (feels like 6)
The increased risks of domestic and child abuse during lockdown
are highlighted
to the mouth of The northeast haven
one semi-skimmed one full cream tHree organic
the lurchEr is again in the dene
I walk right up To a song thrush
a volunteer papeRboy works along the road
no parking garage in constAnt use thank you
a second chiffchaff Pulses song
from surteeS to brandling
the trundle Of a cornering metro
a blackcap or garden warbler Flutes
singing from deep eLdercover
a sandstone tombstOne weathered through
a gull Cries above the haven
a potential woodland glade is choKed with ivy
a truck ignores the flashing reD warning
house of a high sheriff and a lOrd lieutenant’s deputy
a sparrowhaWk spars with a mobbing crow
a runNer passes by
Saturday 18th April
11:16 - 12:01, wind ENE 3 gusting 5, temp 8C (feels like 6)
Healthcare workers in some trusts are told they may have to work with
out adequate personal protective equipment
a Walk to the south-south-east
pause at the top Of the south haven
weave past a quasi-legal gRouping
worKing down to the point
sparrows cheep to the rUmbling metro
step amoNgst graves as a car drives by
feathers lie Plucked among norwegian graves
pass through the Resonance of the gatehouse
the allotment-edge sweet scent drift Of horse manure
warmth in the lee of The hedge
the pink quorum shuttlE shuttles no one
long lines sliCed into the turf
pass by The memory of an early swallow
there are hEns at the bottom of the garden
apple blossom on the Drive
Sunday 19th April
08:04 - 08:51, wind ENE 1 gusting 1, temp 7C (feels like 7)
There is debate of the UK Government’s lack of preparedness and
focus in dealing with the Covid-19 pandemic
to the northwest peninsulA
moving through a Stilled quietude
a dove stands outLined on the roof hip
cross from shadE to sun
the rise and fall of woodpigEon’s display
the noise of a blue jaguar Passes by
footfall contained within roAdside walls
a prioriTy shopper’s slow homeward tread
a runner veers left To pass by
on nortHfield an araucaria and a door slam
centuries of stone-carvEd words
a narroW alley and a blind bend
a soft wHistle descends high in a tree
a bedlington terriEr yaps us past its garden
the gull-laugh swings in thE sky above
a patch of campion Lifts the roadside
Monday 20th April
06:40 - 07:25, wind NE 2 gusting 4, temp 5C (feels like 3)
There is continuing debate of the UK Government’s lack of
preparedness and focus in dealing with the Covid-19 pandemic
to the south haven’s Bank and the mid-east
cherry trees froth whitE and pink
a mistle thrusH runs listens runs
a japanese delIcacy in a hedgerow flower
jay-walk iN the early traffic’s rush
sounDs pulse and wave over me
through The small gate
cane frames await tHe beans
blackcap’s fluting mumblE spars with traffic’s tarmac rush
a lurCher palatinate
rounded Up by a basset hound
seek shelter down by the stReam
an inVisible magpie calls and crow flies
a woodpigEon flies in amorous pursuit
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