On Any Given Day   She's on the only rock still standing, tide rolling in around her. She's at the edge of the land, the very tip of what's solid underfoot. Waves slap on either...

    Parking Lot   There’s a beauty out here that you newcomers can too easily miss in the midst of  that hustle and hurry the world supposes of you.   There’s a garden here, a...

      A Good Night's Sleep Guaranteed I was staying on the Quayside in Newcastle. I’d spent the evening in the Slug and Lettuce, nursing a few beers and looking out of the window at...

      Five photos: child in the garden 1. Bonfire charcoal In a jam jar of Rainwater With dandelion leaves: Magic potion. 2. The hot dry smell of Garden flints clashed Together...

      Sails The day you tried on that tiny bikini – four blue triangles of sail – I knew summer was nearly over— you were wave tumbled, storm flung, glinting on the shore in shades,...

      Ken & Belinda Meditate in a Garden Two figures statue-still sit in the garden gathering the light eyes closed, hands pressed on knees whilst an unseasonal sun silvers their...

      A Jane Austen House Light cradles the water, water cradles the light. Cream bricks, so pure as to be disconcerting; a manicured house – perfect life in a mirage. Inside the...

      The Brain It’s single hub split like a coffee bean two fists of squid fabric, a canopy of cauliflower branches a dense cap of squirming coral. It’s aroma glows sulphur like a...

      What A Soul Is … One night I killed a dove the cat had maimed, pressed its pitted breath from peach-soft feathers until my hands wouldn’t unclench for days, then buried it in a...

    Trick or treat Throw the dice as to Whether it’s wet leaves or dog shit It all looks in the same under The orange lights You see the squared hedge first The smooth slate path and...