Norfolk Sands The sea is drawn back like a blind from a window. The sands near Wells are amber and open – half a mile or more to the water’s edge. We walk away from ourselves...

      The Cynical Gondolier Back then he sewed up his world with an oar. Couples nestled on his boat, lost in each other, while he saw the bones of their lives, glimpses of threadbare...

      A Few Words She removed her coat and folded it over her lap as she sat down. ‘How are you today Leo?’ He pushed against the mattress with both fists, two pillows supporting his...

      "F" is for "finding anything that is not paper to draw on!" At first I was impressed when you could write the initial letter of your first name. I proudly watched your face...

Liebestod i.m. Keith Dawson   Snapping the louvres shut against the night I brush against the sculpture you once owned - The Citizen, a muscled hero, naked except for a belted skin around the...

  What's in a Name?   I watched as the car pulled off one last time the magic trick of making you disappear, wheels drove the lines from where we waited counting up under blinking LED...

      sooner or later sooner or later i’ll have to tell about him about the baby and the way its hair is red and muddy, like fox fur or a silent night, the type we used to have when...

Seven Tanka   he's a beauty, the great big spider crawling the wall above the rattle of computer keys   *   spring has come, the ants carry it into my kitchen on their backs   *...

      Books   I kept the room as it was the polychrome spines of books doing all the talking taking the company of hardbacks down from the crowded shelf I nudged a bookstop (a...

    The Goddammit Well   “How long did it take yuh, Ted?” his wife asked. Her name was Martha. She was hard-toothed as pure donkey. “Long ‘nuf” he answered in a wheeze of breath....