As Planned

As Planned After the first glass of vodka you can accept just about anything of life even your…

Empathy and New Year

Empathy and New Year A notion like that of empathy inspires great distrust in us, because it connotes a further…

A Blessing in Disguise Yes, they are alive and can have those colors, But I, in my soul, am alive…

Here are my most popular blog posts of 2019. As you will have seen, I am taking a brief sabbatical…

Mary At first a fluttering then a kick, his fist pummelling my rib cage when I knelt to pray. They…

BC – AD This was the moment when Before Turned into After, and the future’s Uninvented timekeepers presented arms.…

December …

Supper Never before has she danced so well. Now she stands before him, her feet bare, Anklets lightly…

For reasons I cannot go into here, I am finishing 2019 in a tired frame of mind. (I am not…

Humankind We carry the trust. It was not imposed on us, nor are we heedless. Sometimes the stillness stands in…

Drunken Winter Oak oak! like like it then cold some wild paddle so sky then; flea you say “geese…

Ways of Rebelling Who needs to be at peace in the world? It helps to be between wars, to…

Ultramarine for Philip Archer Looking for the perfect blue, water to swim in, not through, to fill his…

the prophet came to me with a poor man’s tale of his one ewe lamb sworn to him…

There was winter’s cold and moisture in the bedclothes, in the walls and floor, our bodies tired from a…

The Poet Wearies I’ve had it with being Your herald. Everybody has a voice, why am I the one…

To the victorious I will send an unsettling message and these simple questions: enemies, something gives me reason to…

Borders Ground Floor between Fiction and Poetry. The second time in as many days. It comes at me.…

Greenbelt Festival, Friday 23rd August Outside, it is a very warm 28º. Inside our tented venue the canvass and stage…

In Praise of Darkness Old age (the name that others give it) can be the time of our…