When I ring I bring The outside world Crashing In On subtle wires That penetrate The walls Of your fortress. You hold me At arm’s length,...

I am tallow, tapered, temporary. My meagre corona of light Throws a flickering shadow show of sin. Untrimmed, I gutter, and the night...

I give you back the ring you gave to me not an hour ago, the one you wanted me to have, twist it from my finger and pull free of it For...

Have you got a moment when you're not too busy if it's not too much bother it won't take a sec I'd be eternally grateful could you just?...

Three points of contact with the pavement, The wide, white, solid wheels of my tricycle Had anchored me safely to the ground. From the...

There must be rain. For without it, there would be no Pattering on panes or Pouring from pantiles; No smell of petrichor From the...

Dear Dad You died last week. And although we were expecting it, it still came as a shock. There are so many things I want to talk to you...

The library clock ticked heavily. The upstairs reading room felt like a country church on a weekday afternoon: motes of dust drifted in...

We had sat at your bedside, Fed you ice-cream and grapes, Your tongue searching out the moisture. Cooled your forehead with damp cloth,...

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It came in the air one drowsy summer, and they breathed it in unawares, like dust or pollen. Past billowing, frowzy curtains it rode the...

Thank you for calling, Your call is important to us, Please hold the line… The line stretches from here to eternity - Gossamer thin, I...

Back garden bunting – from the carrots and beans across my father’s striped lawn past the tepee of heady sweet peas to the patio pots of...

It must have been May. the lilacs were in bloom - you pulled down a bough and snapped a bunch for each of us. Their heavy heads drooped...

Considering duly that a prince's court Is like a common fountain, whence should flow Pure silver drops in general, but if 't chance Some...

I misheard the word at first - Thought of jackdaws, rooks, magpies Circling overhead; Heard corona and thought of beer. Was glad when a...

Written in response to a challenge... Sun sparkles promise at the edges of the curtain. Draw them, and the day will flood in, sweeping...

City It might be Christmas in a Dickensian novel the way the flakes fall and muffle the city. The way the water in the pipes has...

You are on a beach somewhere Dressed to the nines in the 1930s. Your dress has a Chinese collar and your hair is curled Just so – like...

Our boat pushes against the tide to reach the Ness. We feel intrepid: Marco Polo, Dr Livingstone, Indiana Jones. We clutch our water...