Thames freeze My lady is taking me to see an elephant traverse the icy Thames. I’m a-feared lest we fall in like them two ladies last winter, or worse, like that poor man drowned––frozen...

      Murmuration When the birds came, the pavement was dark with the smell of rain; there was a quietness to it, to the city laid out waiting like an awkward lover. By the railway I...

      clayground copse every evening you wage your campaign against the molehills cleaving each disfiguring mound with a smooth sweep of your spade as jackdaws carouse in the dusk...

      Before In a swathe of red colour you arrive, your body slumped to that of a child; your shoulders are very thin. If I were to begin this again I would say that sometimes to be...

      Say No More I intended to say we share words as well, although it takes just two of us and a common language to articulate a tower. More like that Sunday magazine article On...

      Grounded Yesterday when we were 9, we stole a real imaginary lorry that smelled of circus. It had an elephant engine with a flame-juggler sound. It had unicycle seats and...

      Lord Knows I Can Be Cruel And that morning, the type of morning for putting the neighbour’s post in the bin and you’d ate the last heel of bread, I chose my words, whetting them...

      An Interesting Case of Auditory Processing Difficulty    A writer reckons words are friends. He clearly has not met da gangstas muscling in on the mother son trip to an...

      Word A word under a mountain or hid behind the woodstove. A word against deviltry, a hypothetical construction spoken by a trousered ape. A word that means something other than...