Apr 16, 2024
Further off at the end of the tightrope there is at least the semblance of safety – enticing, luring the next step towards it if I could just break the...
Apr 16, 2024
I watch as everyone shuffles restlessly, suddenly aware of the unpleasant stench engulfing the room, watch as they surreptitiously look out of the corner of their eyes as they try to catch sight of the culprit- the elephant in the room and decide whether to...
Apr 16, 2024
Today is a Choose Day, but choose carefully because I suspect some might think reading my poems will enable you to know me – that if I choose to engage you with the aerial ebb and flow of gregarious starlings in murmuration, synchronous across stark headland, or...
Apr 16, 2024
A speck of grit that evolved pearl-like amongst the other small, shelled, sea creatures along the Jurassic coast waters, I come from salt and deep waters. My first home gave me a window upon blue-purple-green dancing tides golden sands and brought the tang of...
Jan 31, 2024
when the clock struck 1 those just gone to bed held their wine glass heads, ringing inside-outside and thought it was a call back to the bar because they could still remember too much of the evening. when the clock struck 2 the attic mice took their cue to don...
Jan 31, 2024
Today begins pigeon grey but featherless-still, with bone-ache chill clinging to the skeletal fingers of scrawny trees and it looks fit to linger through the day – and not even the desperate endeavours and frantic flutterings of the small brave bands of winged...