Captain HookThe Dark Lady isn’t encouraging: no one wants to hear about your kidney stones.But it’s a funny story, I say, filled with pathos, historical intrigue, heroism.It’s thirty-year-old...

The Childhood of the Greatest Bartender in the LandYou grew upmagic eyed,crawling between the barstools.The first words you readwere the incantations40 percent proof,sweet and dry, bitter and...

On the Cautious RoadThe Hitchhiker holds his sign hopefully.It is such a sad little sign; 
Limp and with a spelling mistake.
Yet it is the way I am going.
If this was 1943 I would stop.
If I was a...

Are ThereSomeone is breaking the branches?! From midnight to the dawn, The forest is trembling inside me. My trees are innocent, Thirsty for milk, Firm hands, and  The scent of effervesce....

Clown WifeSolly, this life will be the death of us.Fat man prat-falling,each laugh hurts like a punchfor my poodle-man in a flimsy ruff.Otto says he no longer finds you funny,walks you like a tiger...

Her Face FlickersBefore I go into the waiting room for clinical psychology I go for a piss. My bladder has been a bit funny lately. I piss too much. Sometimes it's difficult to piss.As I wait...

The green, green grass.Looking out at the lagoon, he saw that it was a peculiar shade of bluish green.  Perched on the edge of it, like a large white communion wafer, was the moon.  ‘It...

Cuckoo Sister Your mother named you Denise Florence:a pencil shavings, navy knickers, inky fingered name.I bounce the syllables on my tongue: they tasteof sherbet lemon; I roll them between my...

cracking voicei lied to my friendsto borrow the moneybut i think it was worth itso i could hire the contractorsand seamstresses necessaryto shorten my pants and shirtsleevesa centimeter at a timeand...

Helen Of Troy Takes A Citizenship TestTired of being Princess
And stunned to read prophecies
Of dumping your kids for the Eiffel boyYou flee and fumble for passport stamp
To world of woman...