Thank you so much to everyone at the M.O.D and the RAF and to all who have kindly supported my writing.

Sensibilities

July 5, 2026

In the Sistine chapel,
and the characters about the place,
and in the characters eyes that in wonder drew you to it,
and then the clothing and then the face,
in the Sistine chapel,
and the characters about the place,
and in its sensibilities,
in its sensibilities that were captured in the paint,
the detail took your breath away,
oh, Michelangelo,
oh, Michelangelo,
you really must have had the patience of a saint.