Heart to heart

I take your hand.

neighbours

He knew her before I did.

A wait must end

Don’t wait for me.

a grievance to grief

Had Picasso painted a bird.

Loud Thoughts in Lockdown

I’m still waiting, we all are…

The Garden of Earthly Delights: A portrait of human avarice.

Bosch reveals the pitfalls of blindly following others, of wanting what they have and propelling a collective greed.

About Time

We lose it, manage it, save it, waste it, then wish we had more of it. Time has become a kind of slippery, anxiety inducing method of measuring life, constantly grappled with.

You’ll have to speak up for Owen

This strained choreography continued agonisingly. His efforts seemed risky with the air thick and rain threatening. Each book, one at a time.

Etta: An Antidote to Anger

Etta James’ voice leaves me breathless. But not in the usual way.

An Invite To Breakfast

As though I’d crossed an invisible threshold and been sucked into another world…I was shopping in a life-sized doll house.

An Ode to Bedtime Stories

In my bedtime stories I was the Secretary General of the United Nations. 

The Hug

Flakes of red get caught in the deep ravines of her upper lip…

Mr Rumble Tumble Man

As he walks he holds his posture in a V shape, hinging from his hips, his torso leans back, to balance the weight of the huge stomach that cantilevers over his legs. 

A Loose Thread

It’s not so much that the thread is loose… it’s the weighing potential for it to completely unravel. And it’s not only that it could unravel, but that it could do so at an uncontrollable moment, poking a hole in your somewhat crafted self-assurance. Leaving it flailing.

To every adolescent error

You’ll be told to say hello to everyone
look them in the eye,
Smiling at a small community-earn your place.
But please don’t tell them everything,
just in case.

Blue

A million years to form, a blue sapphire takes a fingerprint

from the meta-rock around it, while the titanium seeps in. 

Earth Tremors

Rocks underground push to negotiate their place.

A burst of energy, 

a warning?