Wheat   Your boots thump the dust on the stile's nether side. As you weave through the wheat, somehow the brow of the hill is obscured and although you see it plainly the...

    Beguiling with a Gallows Jig Grainstacks at the End of Summer, Morning Effect by Claude Monet At that wink the world stopped with dizzy games, stillness in this grain-stack ingests...

      Foldout Body My new foldout body, has bones I can feel and the cold lives easy, wedged between muscle and cartilage, stone-like, my limbs hold winter. I fold up, hiding the one...

      not quite the million dollar win no, my socks’re not knocked off no hurling hats or punching the air just an average day on this small planet gently beginning with chai and...

      Six Balloons   They came from the east. Flattened rounds, tambourines, but pawn black, silver streamers trailing from their valves, lollipops, against cloud sheen, six came like...

      Neil at The Christening With no living parents, reunions with Neil’s two divorced siblings, Bev and John, were becoming rare. On one of the more unexpected occasions, he arrived...

    Geneva Tantrum at the hypermarche checkout a mother rigid with shame wishes the plastic floor would swallow them both, and maybe it will deposit them down there. Under their feet...

      Stratus The clouds were not just low, they drifted, playing not only hide and seek with planes, they softened everything. Stole the feathers from the blackbirds; their songs...

      Invasion (The Slow Fall / Imbalance / Fall) she held the rock close both eyes bruises in than we had either ever methods to kill the waxing waited for seaweed avoidance / three...

    Two Mutes there were two mutes and they were always together which is not to say, they didn't speak (to each other) they could read the other like a book knowing which line would be...