Cod Cae Claer by Helen Mary Williams Mike White there is firm resistance

there is firm resistance

he also edited The Faber Book of Contemporary Caribbean Short Stories and published 'Is English We Speaking' and other essays

We find ourselves on a rooftop in Colombo

swiftly deleted texts and briefly snatched weekends

this collection is by turns light and aching

Cod Cae Claer by Helen Mary Williams Mike White there is firm resistanceLucid, linguistically dextrous, and woven through with Welsh phrases, and words and passages in French, this exquisitely observed sequence of haiku and haibun was written during lockdown, though only refers to Covid elliptically. There is nothing obvious here instead there are connections with nature, with relationships, with what is lost and what is saved. Cinnamon Press