Isale-Eko Just a kid with an Unquenchable libido for Soccer, and A mother, supportive, like The spines aid the primates. The journey to Isale-Eko for a premature Soccer tourney...

      Lowland Still I work in a chamber where silence trickles out of the raw mash of daily noise – the fumes are so volatile one spark could napalm the place. I let it roll in the...

      Coronation Ball Suddenly, every girl is drawn by the DJ’s pied piper tunes. Since the few men present are eunuched by age they do not tease with Burlesque moves but dance a...

      Unmade Bed We were just lava hitting the sea, in the end.  We moved slowly, forced to destroy our path to suit our shape.  I wonder if we could have done it differently.  Those...

      O Marks The Spot   I press my porcelain skin against the bath, and turn the limescale tap, lie back the tide rises and my buttocks slip, glide upon the film and slide, from...

      Telling Tales   To weave an enticing tale a quest is the essential thread - a search no less - shadowed by a magical bird, or mutatis mutandis, a beast with miraculous...

      Persephone That day was the last time I saw him alive. To be honest, I didn’t think he looked that good. His face was grey; the pockmarks seemed to be anchoring the skin in...

      New Orleans In a room above the streets he paints. He paints a corpse on the ground and a musician on a rooftop. He dips his brush into water and sees dead bodies, floating to...

      Melting Lead I’ve heard it all my life. Pull up A chair inside yourself and listen. A gland in your neck will make your eyes pulsate, bulge with malignant staring. Pull up a...