Mr. BootsThe last thing Bruce wanted to do while driving though upstate New York was stop at the highway rest area – but he had to. He brought in a book, locked the door, and sat down.After a...

Love MeLove is never enoughso build me a bed out of all those romance novelswhere happily ever after is the resultno matter how it's written or hidden behind other words.Spread the blood that...

HarvestFor once when you asked
I followed without question,
brushing through the sour nettles
that choke the gap in the hawthorn hedge

to stand at the edge of this moment
you have led us to:
full...

The Old Ash Tree           Rhydymwyn Valley, North East WalesI walk this bend of tarmac road.Here the River Alynflowed past you, old sleeping Ash...

The Weird and Wonderful World of TEFL #1 - #10 # 1
Sally got sacked for bringing stray dogs to class, although she swears it was because she refused to wear shoes.

# 2
Chas got sacked for playing...

Monica Lewinsky smokingbut not inhalingthat urge to fit inwe felt the sameI knew. conjugate the verb: to suckhe sucks(present absence)I sucked(past tense)but I didn’t swallow(excuses);the...

Elizabeth’s Guinea Pig Madam, a diversion the courtier saysand scoops me, not unkindly, from the basket.You know me: a bean-bag with petal feetwhich flower hot or cold depending on the mood,fur...

Things I sometimes think about when traveling by plane

Blowing through clouds, I want to see the desert sunthey talk so much about in movies. The ocean looks 
bigger, thirty thousand feet in the...

Forge Housefor Valerie, in memory of our motherBetty Greening (née Turner), born May WhaleHe leans out of the door to the forge, holding a smilethat might be simple courtesy or satisfactionwith...