Marginalia When I find something brilliant in a book that bursts with ideas and sparklingly beautiful versions of things I suddenly realise I knew all along but didn’t have the words for it hurts a bit. Tenderness prodded. I want to take these treasures and hug them, sift them, frame them, try them on and […]
Mental load – 100 words
Mental load dentist, haircuts worm tablets, damp on the ceiling just out of date stewing steak, and the squeaky garden gate a change in teenage behaviour, keep an eye on that school trip to be paid for and verrucas again quick trip to the supermarket between band practice and scouts don’t forget Susan’s birthday […]
Herbal Medicine – 100 words
Strawberry Moon – 100 words
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, […]
