.

Above the stars

But beautiful 

Concealed

Darkness

.

…heard the most perfect music I had ever heard in my life. It was directed by the most famous Claudio Monteverdi … who was also the composer and was accompanied by four theorbos, two cornettos, two bassoons, one  basso de viola of huge size, organs and other instruments…

.

Like a child

Waiting

.

For I tell you that their angels in heaven always see the face of my Father in heaven. Matt.18:10

.

Giovanni e Lucia, Wistreich (2007), p. 261

.

All the music is lost

.

.

For Hugh’s son, who is now 22. Claudio is severely disabled.

.

Grey clouds at a tyre repair

Concrete blocks a distant wall

Flocks of birds spiralling

The kindness of a boy

Pumping tyres and blackening them

Working patiently

I wash my hands in an old bathtub

Grandchildren now not children

Owner different but somehow similar

Light shining

.

.

People on a railway station

I am one

.

A lady sings as she walks towards me

.

A train appears and disappears

.

A driver smiles a greeting

I smile back

.

I realise this was my train

.

.

I

.

Steps up

Steps down

Shadows

.

Sun

.

.

each day

the light returns

.

immune to

sadness

.

wondrous

.

.

Night has come

Outside the stars

.

Imaginary

Inside

.

Distant trains

.

Each room

Lit

.

.

sky

descent

.

one

by one

.

influx

eternal

.

pillars

cold

.

.

Eden

viewed

eternal stars

.

For my daughter Eve’s birthday

.

Kathexes is the thirtieth word

in the Gospel of Luke.

in order, in a sequence.

.

Celebrating my son Luka’s thirtieth birthday. His passion is mathematics.

.

Two walking, discussing

A stranger, unrecognised

Prophet, powerful in word

and deed, crucified

Tales of women, amazed

How foolish, suffered

entered glory

Stay with us

Took bread, broke it

Eyes open, disappeared

Were not our hearts

burning?

.

He stood on the shore

Friends, have you any fish?

Did not realise

Throw your nets

It is the Lord

Burning coals

fish and bread

None dared ask

.

Do you love me?

Feed my lambs

I lead you where you

do not want to go

Follow me

.

When did we see you

a stranger, unclothed, sick, in prison?

Whatever you did for the least,

You did for me

.