I Met You Singing Karaoke I met you singing karaokethat night you sang one hell of a song.since then we've been spittingmany of these flyaway goodbyes.gravity somehow doesn't abideits...

My Favourite Walk into the City Skirting the westward end,Along the borderline of the twin cities,Under train tracks that dive to the heart of oneAnd to the head of the other. Across the...

Giving the Big NewsThere were two kids like me     and someone‘s curly-headed younger brother by the stream, in the mulch    ...

Communal Changing Urban shepherdesses of SW3(too genteel for country matters)try on flower-print smocksin the changing roomsof Laura Ashley. The glare of the lights in the room full of...

ParableA man flat on his backon the pavement,arms and legs spread,eyes shut, still.When things like thisoccur I don’t actindifferent,I am indifferent.I look and walkquickly away.I don’t want to...

Acorn  “I’m leaving you.” Dirk sighed and blasted Candy through the bedroom window.  An under-reaction perhaps, but there’d been Cherry all along  until  of-course they’d tickled...

this is where I am and  how I believed it would be it is dark except for the glow from the computer screens somehow want them to project the shifting lines of numbers onto the walls across the...

A week in the lifeMondayToday, a scrum of clouds hides the sun.No starsin the night sky (the nightthat is completely hers)as she twists the kitchen tap – cold watersplashing into the...

In the Year of Splitting UpLike the man who lived eleven days awake we were always on a knife bladeof sleep. Afraid, in the slack space of a blink it would be over. We portioned the hours like...

Spinning Plates  My mother was mad as mercury,mad as a silken Disraeli stovepipehat hiding a gypsum-white rabbit.  She once told me, the malt talking,that I wasn't her first born...