Author: admin

the sun grazes you with her fingertips and longs to hold you closer for longer warmth she dances between your eyes a promiscuous butterfly giggling as she spins light the wind shares her secrets with you like fresh polaroids...

Friday, July the twenty-first. Journey from Gatwick was easy enough. Across the way from me were this couple, mother and daughter, very English, countryside types, the girl disabled, it appeared. Kind people, cheerful, but when...

Three-year-old Willis, bustled on to the bus on Fishguard square, can only see a god, a driver, a man who can drive a big blue bus. His mother smiles at the driver too, responds to his salute, but then it’s back to thoughts of...

My arm at night, a thing studied in a dusty room. A classroom, a schoolmaster, I act like a cat. Dessert bakes stress, bad credit, no debit. Clapping my card on the table reflecting. “Did you know that eleven plus two=twelve...

I shall never again contrive to stand with soapy bucket in drive— hose too short, too much lather too much muss, fuss and bother. Nor will I do the self-drive through The flashing lights I bump into I see “DRIVE FORWARD” then...

If we are not stunned into only strained words by the immensity of it, what really do we have to pontificate about? We may call life what we will. Ponzi scheme. Set-up. Scam. Or eternity. Whatever. Won’t you be stunned with me?...

I’ve taken my darkness with me into every place I’ve known. Lovely, lots of them. Painful a few. But I’ve taken my dark with me when I’ve gone. It’s the companion that I dream.

How fast a world crumbles. How slowly one gathers again. There is the arriving; there is the going away. There is the train siding with its birds and debris. And waiting. And waiting. There is the falling rain beating, beating...