a spring death

a spring death
voices rise and fall
with the breeze

Little Onion
Great Yarmouth
February 2016

Paul Conneally

all through the night

all through the night
the old bridge sings
sleet in the week

Paul Conneally
February 2016

The Ice-Cream Man

the ice-cream man
points out the way to me
with an ice-cream

Paul Conneally
after Issa

Cicadas and Ringtones

piercing stones
all along the promenade
cicadas and ringtones

Paul Conneally
Cannes 2015

Paul Conneally

Half-Way Home

In the South of France it seems Picasso lived everywhere - his picture is found on wall after wall and somehow he always looks just right.

half-way home
a drunk relieves himself
into the Mistral

Paul Conneally
August 2015
Mougins

Heat Haze

The old lady passes some time with a magazine and a Perrier water in the shade of a café umbrella as she waits for the clock to come around to a point where she has to do something, be somewhere, meet someone.

She checks her watch, a mans watch, and asks me what time I have on my watch. I show her. Give or take a tick or two they match up. It's a quarter-to-eleven.

She thanks me saying she thought her watch was slow but clearly not. We share a laugh and I move on up the road to another pottery studio which seem to be everywhere here in the French town of Vallauris.

It's starting to get hot.

heat haze
we visit every shop
for the air-con

Paul Conneally
Vallauris, France
August 3 2015

Al Fresco Lunch

al fresco lunch
a Saigon baguette
in a French market

Paul Conneally
Mouans-Sartoux
July 2015 

Deep Shade

deep shade
a magpie calls out
to its dead mate

Paul Conneally
Mouans-Sartoux
July 2015

Between Floors

a glance
between floors
the leaf on her shoe

Paul Conneally

Photograph: Newarke Street Car Park, Leicester – Paul Conneally