Flights of the butterfly

  • In a French village

    Four plaques on a wall in the sun Four brothers who died in a war. In the lane by the church, in the square with the flowers, It’s the price that one village has paid. There’s a list on the cross and a list by the flags, carved in the hard black stone. It seems…

  • The Bicycle in my Tree

    This is not the worst cycling accident in the world: I saw this picture of a bicycle in a sycamore tree some three years after losing someone precious to me. Something about it made me save the news cutting. It seems in 1914, a lad propped his bike against a tree, went off to war…