Jason’s Last Supper I have flavoured myself with mandrake and honeysuckle; softened the light; set the table in silks; gathered dew at midnight to wash your feet. I have used the voice of Callas to...

Zonnebloem Hold fast to dreams for if dreams die, life is a broken-winged bird that cannot fly – Langston Hughes. Let me tell you how I fill my nostrils with home, with the girls at the hairdresser,...

two old friends winter and summer seldom meet but when they do they argue terribly. when I am with one I find myself being autumn and when with the other I am spring. sight holding a butterfly in my...

Angel He found the passport on the Northern Line didn’t hand it in kept it buried in a drawer under a tangle of socks and ties takes it out from time to time to consider her startled eyes her...

From a Midnight train From a midnight train I see people trudging home in the dizzying rain underneath Morrisons which offers shelter like trees in a roundhouse. From a midnight train I see the...

Coat Shades of earth & sky with me between them walking on a blue morning your red ticket stub in the cold lined pocket blunted slipping through fingers leaving me wanting *Susannah Pickering is...

First Love My first great love was a boy with green hair whom I saw in a movie of the same name. He was the saddest boy in the world on account of the green hair he suffered and shed many tears. But...

Weekend Affair Monday I really missed you — your long fingers, hair curled round my fingers and all that. Tuesday I was terribly busy. Wednesday something about a girl at the office reminded me of...

The Holy Ghost I didn’t know;Christ had thorns stuck in his head,God Almighty was in everything,even Goblin pies I hated.The Holy Ghost a mysteryuntil he came:burning coals,shuggy-boating above my...