Penelope Shuttle talks of light's journey

by | May 20, 2010 | Prose & Poetry

LightLight likes to travel at his own speed,making up stories about kingdoms and good deeds,unfolding  – eh voila! -a tiny vulnerable brand-new street café -then resting for a while on any sesame portal,or in the vicinity of a closing-down sale,turning his...

Bobby Parker is eating alphabet soup

by | May 19, 2010 | Prose & Poetry

Alphabet Soup a)Posing in the mirror with a knife.  Stealing from my mother’s purse. Stealing my dad’s cigarettes. My psychologist makes me drawpictures of screaming people. I don’t feel anything, I am a dragonfly butting the walls in a seizure of supposed...

Ivor Murrell hears songs of light and darkness

by | May 19, 2010 | Prose & Poetry

Songs of Light and DarkHuman Voices concert at Halesworth, December 13th 2009It was started as a murmura memory rising from the cave dark.Welele, Welele, Welelethe ululation progressed, so did the singerspassing through the listenersweaving them into place, lockedin a...

Mark McDonnell considers the nature of pain

by | May 18, 2010 | Prose & Poetry

Electric BatonIn the pause beneath a bare light bulb which has been sun and moon for weeks (with rice cooking not a mile away children coming in from school)the soldier’s eyes slide from the electric baton to your wet body what he will dowill be done...