***     I’m so glad you came so fast I have never needed you more it's time to get this cult on the road you can be the holy scriptures & I’ll be the minister at...

    A study in anatomy   If you believe humans have shrunk through history, that the giant in our troupe is a throwback to an age of towering heroes, what does that make me? A...

        roman holiday     in my head you walked across the sacred squares of Rome, papal fancies, golden towers (scraping the inside of my skull) and on until the...

    Moon    The moon reaches through the crack in the curtain to draw on the wall. ‘You do not belong here,’ she says, ‘not unless you are dreaming.’ ‘But they’re expecting me, I...

      A Hero’s Deith   Still he shidders, an staunds wi his swuird, an threitens, kiverin wi breuken shield his kist’s remains, nou, his een are plowt intae infineet shaidae,...

  Rescue   They'd found him as usual up Pendle Hill, and as usual the police car stopped at number 26.   Here we are Mrs Higginbottom, safe and sound. The young policeman spoke gently...

    The Hunters in the Snow   After Pieter Breughel the Elder   I love the perspective, the trees all straight, Four horizontal lines, dark, receding.   The sense of cold...

  The Sheds   Sheds: haunches nestled into banked earth.  Cow parsley, ragwort, bedding high sides.  Blunt faces nose-ringed with hanging padlocks.   Inside, a stook of exhausted...

      Songstress on Primetime Italian TV   Songstress what songstress I see svelte teenage girls in bikinis gyrating while men watch & women clap hands in time to the band...