Deflective Really, it’s nothing This old thing. Well, no, from the supermarket and in the sale It’s not me, it’s a team effort Just a fluke Beginner’s luck It hardly took me any time at all I wasn’t doing anything important There are much better ones He taught me everything I know I can’t take […]
Action man – 100 words
Action man Adverts, before the main feature eagle eyed: on the lookout for action with posable physique and fists ready for a gun and the controls of his helicopter or tank an impressive display of military muscle with uniforms to match – and that was when it happened: ‘made in China’ on the spine and […]
A worm’s turns – 100 words
A worm’s turns When I read a book I am free from the need to break in my boots before setting off on the trail, from finding a babysitter so I can set sail for intriguing destinations, from the mortification of my own naked form under a lover’s red-hot gaze, from my ignorance’s certain discovery […]
Petrichor – 100 words
Petrichor Not again, they groan as fat splashes polka dot dry soil quenching the plants drenching the benches and sending the fair-weather idlers back home so the landscape is mine now and I can prance through the mud in my new waterproofs and my old wellington boots to admire the world as it puts on […]




