on the breeze

traffic
and jazz —
night music

fugue

leaves
swirling from the tree
birdsong

listen

robin
headcocked
radio

office garden

birdsong
above
the radio

Peggy’s Skylight (great venue)

lunchtime jazz
wandering
the cobbled streets

one day like this a year

spring morning
pulling back the curtains
all the way

Royal Concert Hall

the emptiness
of the concert hall
filled with music

Christmas concert

the shadowed arches
of the church
trumpetsong

fertilizer

blackbird sings
shits
on the forget-me-nots

midnight

midnight
walking down the middle
of the road

kitchen music

clarinet arpeggios
some ingredients missing
from the soup

lull in the music

before the encore
texting the babysitter

conducting

new growth on the hawthorn
twitch
of the blackbird’s tail

chaffinch

blackbird song
pause
chaffinch twitters

morning after

after the party
rain
refilling the empty glasses

Light Night

street dancers
a window
in the crowd

make it stop

outside the nightclub
the throb of silence
and inappropriate shoes

to infinity and beyond

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ploughed field
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parallel lives
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was I good?

after her solo
searching the audience
her mother’s smile

soundtrack

earbuds pop out —
the soundtrack
of the city

lie-in

IRDSN
betweenyoursleepingbreaths
BOG

broken things

dual-mass flywheel
magnetron, hard drive
kitchen stool
cupboard door
dripping tap
window catch
it’s not the end of the world as we know it
and I feel fine

Indietracks

puddles
by the stage —
toddlers mosh pit

sharing

lunch on the bench
catching windblown crumbs
of music

ballet

swan feather,
breath of a zephyr,
pirouettes across the lake

Jiggered

clearing away
the chairs, as the ceilidh
reels us all in

good coverage

painting the walls
with a paint-splattered
radio

arresting

violin crescendo —
outside,
the siren passes

Kanneh-Mason family

piano trio,
I close my eyes — soundtrack
to my daydream

Record player

The needle skates a
thin black track — weaves behind a
tapestry of sound

Mix tape

Not my songs
arranged track by track,
but a piece of me

Young Voices 2018, Sheffield

Listen, old ears
as five thousand young voices
sing “All together now”

cucurucu

gig: recreating
all those album tracks we love,
tonight, just for us

reach the high notes

I’m on the ladder
radio on its back
Singing up to me

gardening

on the radio
jazz piano – rain taptaps
on the radio

my favourite song

the guitar’s six strings
jump up and down together
we all do the same

jenna’s concert

after her concert
the walk home sharing the buzz
and a bag of chips