Ben North's "I Met You Singing Karaoke'

by | Aug 19, 2011 | Prose & Poetry

I Met You Singing Karaoke I met you singing karaokethat night you sang one hell of a song.since then we've been spittingmany of these flyaway goodbyes.gravity somehow doesn't abideits different like sand and ice.you said you were touchedI still don't know...

John Burns ' 'Favorite Walk into the City'

by | Aug 18, 2011 | Prose & Poetry

My Favourite Walk into the City Skirting the westward end,Along the borderline of the twin cities,Under train tracks that dive to the heart of oneAnd to the head of the other. Across the bridge in the shadow of Hatshepsut’s monolith,While silverbellied...

'Communal Changing' by Marilyn Francis

by | Aug 16, 2011 | Prose & Poetry

Communal Changing Urban shepherdesses of SW3(too genteel for country matters)try on flower-print smocksin the changing roomsof Laura Ashley. The glare of the lights in the room full of mirrorsdoes not spare their bare flesh, but they don’t carethey are too...

Chris Hardy's 'Parable'

by | Aug 14, 2011 | Prose & Poetry

ParableA man flat on his backon the pavement,arms and legs spread,eyes shut, still.When things like thisoccur I don’t actindifferent,I am indifferent.I look and walkquickly away.I don’t want to interferein his parable,or let him interferein mine.*Chris Hardy has been...

Jonathan D Rodgers' 'Acorn'

by | Aug 13, 2011 | Prose & Poetry

Acorn  “I’m leaving you.” Dirk sighed and blasted Candy through the bedroom window.  An under-reaction perhaps, but there’d been Cherry all along  until  of-course they’d tickled her tonsils  with the barrel of a Kalashnikov.  Now both...