Revival I found a frozen lizard on my walk at the red mud edge of a Devon lane. Intact and unspotted by crows or rooks, half hidden in the horse shit round the drain. I thought...

    I’d like to tell you... but you don’t exist yet. So far there’s only me mixed together with a few caraway seeds on the kitchen table and you will be a splodge of spilled coffee taking...

      Porosis Such a soggy word – like dripping pipes, skin that’s oozing sores or milk pouring from a cracked jug and soaking a new carpet. If you stick an ‘a’ in it’s an oasis,...

      In the house with the lights out One can't tell by the walls that we are all broken it's a furious look at lunch a scream behind windows it's always the onions and I was born...

    Glee Just as in the song she’d take out the ironing to get at the cupboard to open the dishwasher unload the racks go back to the table to pick up the plates to clear off the crumbs...

      The nurseryman and then the government attacked and fire leapt from roof to roof and all the colours bled to black for days the greatest rainstorm sluiced the soot from stumps...

      Les Nymphes Aurore We have surrounded the house of the French chef. He is inside skinning tarragon leaves from their stems, boiling vinegar, crushing peppercorns, grinding sea...