Scrambling on a patchwork of frozen snow, ice and mud, tufts of died yellow grass, grating forward, pushing though stunted bushes in single ...
Potpourri
Potpourri
My Mum
Was always there. Cooked my breakfast, made my sandwiches, walked me to school, cleaned my cuts, pulled out the bee stings, read ...
Fred and James
Met them on a holiday, in a field without any maps, Cornwall camping far away; both caused the tent to collapse. Two mad dogs and ...
Stag Party
Follow the herd, my chance will come, I will prevail, my time is near. My bony outgrowths are itching to fight. Watch and wait, ...
Aye AI
Your brain will slowly shrivel for all your thoughts are pictures, created by computers, and now AI images. Real and unreal ...
Switch Off
What words you speak will now flow, forlorn and jumbled up, so innocuous and useless. Misspelt and misunderstood, twaddle, ...
Hallowe’en
Cut out his eyes, Cut off his head, Cut out his mouth, Remember the dead. Hang his head high, Let his head sway, Hang ...
Nammick
In Wiltshire a break and batch In Yorkshire time for a breadcake In Lancashire you had a barm In Sunderland a welcome stottie In ...
Sicilian Pastiche
Pan tiled roofs coloured with lichen grow on buildings which gape wide open in the heat. Marbled quarried blocks are bleached in the ...
We are at War
the line in the sand, cross it and we fight, for land, food, wealth, principles or right, we fight to ...