Unfollowing It was fine when I started; follow friends, follow family. Then folk followed me, and I’d follow them out of politeness, not knowing any better. But some of the followed...

      He Takes Off his Hat and Steps He takes off his hat and steps off the train, looks up at the sky, puts his watch back an hour. He reckons one day he’ll be buried at sea. His...

      A River Runs Through It At the backpackers, alongside The river, they are playing American football on the Large screen inside, the sound Of the game on the speakers Outside. It...

      Life-Raft The water’s a cold gasp as you plunge feet first from the side of the ship. The drag of boots you’d not thought to remove never part of the drill. Your Mae West like a...

  Postcard from Barrow Five o’clock at the end of Ocean Road, a string of stones along the shore, each with a shadow longer, more misshapen than the next. You would put your hand on each one if...

      Airplane The filtered light slices her little finger, part of her face. She moves her neck and say- Do you see what I see? I see an airplane’s fin speeds through a dim and...

      Sold     You came back for your clothes and your laptop, your music - carefully pre-filed - a few of the more elegant things and of course the gadgets, leaving me to...

      Something More As much as music it was fog, as cold descending, as candles stayed unlit, as if daylight was more than daylight. It was not ceremonial, a stillness filling a...

      A Failed Coup   Now, I predict, that not-so-secret citizen will reflect On a catalogue of failure, ending a history of outrage Against the state. Papers you have passed me...

      Against Nature   People call her a goddess I never could see it myself   It was my parents pushed us together walking through mud in the country park   but we...