Berlin I hear the pulse of rain swallowing the echo of the U-Bahn, street of peeping blue towers, blocks of concrete yellow clones. A spacious forecourt at Bebelplatz bricked pale path...

      Ruddy Kingfisher You follow the edge of bird’s stringy trills pace by pace; the sound descending into rank bracken ferns and datura flowers under leaves of wild papayas. The...

      Summer Plans for Maddy   Yours is a casual voice, sloping down the 2nd, 8th, 20th of June into my basin; but I hear se  cond – lips thread back then draw together, yarning...

      The Quail   Sophia immerses the podgy quail into a pot of hot water and then starts plucking them. Tufts of brown feathers blanket the water. She then cuts their heads off...

      Like Eden when the artful conception that frames the plot is forgotten we bless the blossom by design a garden is not nature but within we play the creator trimming shrubs...

    First Things First: The Telegrams Let’s be clear—stop All must be concrete—stop green house emergency each 3rd Tuesday—stop Prometheus and Kiki keep tobacco on a leash—stop Seven pies...

      Nocab My mum wouldn’t eat bacon. God had said you weren’t supposed to and so my dad wrote it backwards on the shopping list. That way the Jewish neighbours wouldn’t know we...

      Rosebush If we could, for a moment, Forget all the sounds and colors, All thoughts and desires And experience then the touch of fingers. Softness would begin the senses....

      Calm ­ the top right of the moon is missing no light exists between here and there not in the long divide the absence the gaps between stars the billion mile emptiness between...