He Arrives Home Drunk (with Stage Directions) He is downstage right, half-sitting on, half-across an armchair, in a fairly slobbed-out bodily situation. The light from the neon strip...

  The Trees & Their Names I’ve been given a list, the names of the trees. The task is to go into the forest and match the names with trees. I start with an easy one: English Oak, Quercus...

    Miracles have plagued this town …  So when the blacksmith saw Father drop his crutches, and go running bow-legged down the street, he simply spat and swore; hammering his fizzing curse...

  The ego is never clean Today isn't gross with worry and the sky's wide open tarp is thrown over precisely. Then I climbed back inside myself and thought: I really am what people think, and on...

    The place I come from….. after Robert Seatter A father filled with darkness And memories Of Welsh mountains. I come from a mother With hair Like the princess In a fairy tale. I come...

  Bia Hoi And it must be about the same time each night, perched on the little red plastic stools, too small for hairy western legs, around yellow plastic tables, sipping bia, watching the road...

  talking like rimbaud i don’t talk enough for them they tell me that i don’t talk we talk all day here they say to me but you just sit and say nothing i don’t know what happened to me maybe i...

  Fireworks The fireworks came from the water, or so he thought, lighting a cigarette with an old matchbox, wishing he could light it off his girlfriend's cheek, and leave her skin prickling...

    Immigrant on reading Jhumpa Lahiri's 'Unaccustomed Earth' Last night, I found myself floating through an airport so white it seemed like the inside of a shell seen from a baby's eyes...