Strawberry moon Lush with the kiss of warm evenings and sticky sweet fruit promises it hangs ripe and fat where abundance meets greed and juice bursts, flows, rushes sating all senses In belly-tight contentment, we lie under gentle air that whispers to my skin, and turn to trust this season’s lust and, eventually, […]
Middle-aged bingo – 100 words
What is a birthday – 100 words
Dryad – 100 words
Dryad I’m young in the woods with new-hatched insects, buzzing busy, and idle hop birds, indolent and dusty. I can see child hands, pressed on rock, in sand, digging and wriggling with worms or gleaming beetles, palm of night-green leaf crush. Kneeling to work and study knobbles under canopy ferns: my nest, […]
Too many tabs – 100 words
Too many tabs Upcoming birthday: the perfect gift Did I click to complete the order? Identify squares with taxis in them? Will it rain next week? Passport application – holiday admin Is it whole eggs or just yolks in carbonara? On the hunt for a tradesperson, available now, at a price that doesn’t make […]
Glimmer warning – 100 words
Everyone is doing their best… 100 words
Everyone is doing their best… Even the idiots, the dickheads and the pillocks with what they know; who they are. The prat doesn’t brush his teeth and say ‘today I’m going to see how many people I can irritate witless with my stupidity?’ No, he thinks, perhaps, his day is long, his lover unresponsive, or […]
Pilgrims – 100 words
Pilgrims Crossing oceans, walking miles they come to stand together and receive – in exaltation – His attention, bestowed briefly, a blessing on every soul, heirloom memories, I remember when… in this ancient ceremonial place where 3000 years of humanity has gathered with so many stories: one purpose, and kindness transcends language shared water; […]