This is Saint Phillip's Chapel, the only Episcopal (Church of England/Anglican) church in Gaza. It's the chapel for the Episcopal Hospital there. The Israeli military bombed it in 2002. It's been housing wounded and refugees recently. Again the Israeli military has attacked it. You should know.

I got another one!

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"I love you, Granddad"
"I love you too, Violet"
is all I needed.

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Close my casket's lid,
What's left is of no more use,
It loved me to death!

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Insomnia means
Neither side of the pillow
Is cool; drifting dreams.

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I went to the store
Taylor Swift sang 22
Bought grainy mustard

I want to be friends with @adrianedmondson.bsky.social because since his brilliant Desert Island Discs, I'm sure we'd be buds.

No poems today
The sky is flat grey, and cold
As a quiet phone
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Anointed with oil
Ancient words of gentle love
Evening is close.
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A friend says
'the darkness persists; and so do I'.
Those are expensive words.

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We could talk, to share,
Yet quiet is contentment
Autumnal stillness

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My ten year old dog
Dreams easily, waits for me,
Looks me in the soul
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Night wind roars the trees
How many lives I've lived in dreams
Sleepless thoughts like prayers

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His skin and unkept hair
as pale as the hospital sheets
Yet his smile wide
Stories full of life
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He would have been ninetynine this year,
And I finally know
What I wanted to have said
For his eulogy

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My current go-to evening stress-relieving TV watch is old Northern Exposure episodes on Amazon Prime. So good!

This building where I work 3 days a week, a beautiful whitewashed brutality concrete chapel, against a perfect blue New England fall sky.