Accidents and Incidents, Truths and Observations

Clouds on the horizon.  Clouds, smoky and grey, pre-empting the passing season - sandal-free days.  So I spend my afternoon darning so...

Lilies      dense and white      and speckled orange      soft-stemmed funnels of sorrow      bundled within a polythene sleeve ...

I climb the corner from Valley into Upper Valley Road the licorice evening cat-curling round my feet young boy ten walking ...

In an attempt to drive his taunting teenaged son from his bedroom as he tries to prepare for bed the father strips completely nake...

Another piece from an Electric Tomatoes session - this was the first warm up exercise and the prompt was 'terrifying'.... Not the...

We've been looking at the villanelle in my writing class, so I thought I'd have a bash at one.  There's something very wistful...

I meet you and my heart bleeds words and so upon torn scraps of vellum I write the words down in my blood ink to capture ...