Ride The Amazing Cobra! Everything is in the open now: there you are, pinned up high like clothes thrashing on a line, and cry, scream, or hide your eyes there's no getting off....

      When We Were Occultists In the days when we were occultists we were dazzled by symbolism, numerology and arcane language. We’d spend an afternoon sniffing ether because that was what...

    First, to music I am forgotten music carrying chores like a bag lady as day rushes to an end weighed down by the tempo of a supermarket aisle at weekend peak-time. I direct my old...

    Cousin partition Lahore, 1960 We have caught a spy from across the border the kind of traitor our teacher warned us of with brazen suitcases stuffed with unfolded thoughts tie her up...

    Koba Koba was old and not very handsome. He wore a dark leather coat that would have been expensive, had it not been so tattered. Underneath, his spine was fine and curved. I often...

      Delta My mind is afraid of deep sleep. So much threatens it it won't give up control to the slow waves it makes itself. It keeps me in the shallows eyes flickering over what I...

  Westminster ‘Emily Wilding Davison. Found hiding in crypt of Westminster Hall’ – Census of England and Wales, 1911 Note the Enumerator’s slip of the wrist in his legalese. Yes, she is sole...

  Natural Dark clouds block the light, bar one entire field on fire from a single ray of sun. A minx waits till the trees turn, then steals through dewy grass taking a red hen’s companion. She...

      Early European Painting Another painting, John the Baptist in the desert this time, and then next up, Madonna and child followed by a saint being stoned with angels in the wings...