Goodnight Clapham

Goodnight Clapham is a suite of six pieces for guitar that tell the story of one summer night on London’s Clapham Common.

And the accompanying poem:

The Future of Shadows

At the dusk-end of workaday trials, the breath of the evening garden

Spills the perfume of a night-blooming flower.

Later, alone, we lie under the punctured firmament, light demurely visible. 

From the bandstand, through the trees, the lamps in the grand houses

Are darkening, one by one.

Floating through the day-for-night streets,

Light chases its shadow. 

As of course, it must.