Hypothermia i bend my arms foetal against the cold, old and crippled, i am earthquakes and osteoporosis. i am rickety mountains trembling under gravid, granite peaks i grow in...

On our Sixth Date, I offer my arm as a right angle, and in its taking, you learn, perhaps, through the calm pulse of our stroll, the way in which, or the sense of the way in which, my hip is set....

      The Map Under the pavements I’ve hidden My map, drawn in black and carmine, Saved for my daughters. The lessons In reading it were secret ones, held early In the morning: they...

      The Three Friends 1 Phoenix, Jade and Maisie, best friends since Year One, stick together in their voyage through the Infants. Phoenix and Jade are in Mrs Clarkson’s ‘Special...

  Coffee-Carp How did they manage to make this coffee taste of fish? I complained in the uniquely english way that makes it sound as if it’s all my fault but they understood and asked if I...

      Off the Rails At midnight, the town travels, swallowing snake- joined, dot to dot houses, breathing through windows, illusion borne currents, electric gold, mirrored and...

      We Drove out to Anywhere Spitting mandolins of duck breast, sizzling, start to suggest things; the coming together of ramblers, we masqueraded as them, on a May morning,...

    In a Parallel Universe A woman on stage is doing her best gospel preacher impersonation. We are sitting behind a pillar that obscures the view. Its paint is marked with the dribbles of...

    Chorus Girl In the night she comes, knocking at the glass, Poe-ish, in her petrol sheen, midnight negligée, brazen eye, a voyeur, between the curtains. Blackbird, aren’t you supposed...

    So That French Guy walks in a Bar in Oslo That year, I decided to stay in Stavanger on the West Coast of Norway, as I had heard a lot of good things about the City --especially from...