Are you active or inert? They’d pared the greeting down to its bare bones. Perhaps to save time, time being at a premium in those days. But just as likely because no one wanted to hear the positives any more. They were a sensitive spot. ‘Are you good, well, happy, […]
Yearly Archives: 2014
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Can you purge what is to be purged can the fabric be made clean or simply washed to hide corruption Can you empty the house and call it clear while the bricks still bleed dirt When the flood passes are the tide marks washed away or absorbed into the mortar […]
It was almost done. Although ‘almost’ could mean a lot. A year, ten, twenty – they could all be near the end. But it was certainly a long way from the start now. A long way from those initial taps of the hammer and the first few chips of stone […]
Draining the poison was a relief. The resentment she felt about the process was a minor price to pay. It dehumanised her, the procedure, it left her vulnerable. A feeling which, with the poison in her, would have been a problem. But as it was funnelled away from her blood […]
What price a child’s happiness? We’ll price match! Santa’s coming? Have you been naughty or nice? Get your free credit check now! Feeling that Christmas Spirit yet? Order now for next day delivery! Family and friends with you for the festive season? Late night opening so you don’t disappoint! Merry […]
It’s a moment of occupation the ground below and sky above shaking and darkened by an invader you fear to look at And your home disappears a cell taking it’s place alien walls consuming once familiar streets And with a knot of nothing the occupied look on until skies clear […]
I can see those eyes that creature mangy, broken but vicious, fuelled by wounds inflicted when last we met Prowling with a snarl No killer, nothing so clean nothing so final though in the chase there may be wounds scratches and scars their mark more than their pain or just […]
On one of the days of Christmas my true love sent to me a reasonably priced eBook short on Amazon… let’s just pretend that scans. Space FM is officially available for download as an Amazon exclusive. Cheaper than a poncy cup of coffee, more enjoyable than a family bag of Skittles and […]
Loathe to try and give background on poetry given that everyone will get from it what they’ll get and any message I have should be contained in the verse. But, as you lose a lot of context online when you don’t (necessarily) know the author and can’t hear a reading […]
As the obligatory madness of promotion starts to consume my very soul here’s a jaunty tune to see us all through… That which is dead may never die but with strange aeons even death may die. Although how that relates to a short ebook release I’m not entirely sure.