Funeral tea Over the sandwiches nobody wanted: A lovely service… So sad… More tea? Did you know…? Do you remember…? I wish… So do I… We shut our eyes and wished harder than we’d ever wished before and there you were shimmering over teacups. Made from dust and misery and pieces of our hearts, […]
Change – 100 words
Change Wood eventually dries, crumbles, splits and releases the nail. Sellotape, exhausted, curls up and falls off the paper. Silt shifts and rocks roll down the river, night gloom is slashed by dawn and flees. Rain dries. Midnight hungry babies will eventually be teenagers that won’t get out of bed. Skin will sag. People […]
Pendulum – 100 words
Cracking… 100 words
Solstice – 100 words
Solstice We grow like plants towards the light – straining, strong, blood-sap rising, our vein-visible leaf-tips fluttering up, reaching, rushing, straight overhead, meeting beating down sun at its highest, balanced and bringing fire to earth – a smouldering manifestation of living energy. My growing, glowing plant centre can sense the neck-cricking pull to […]
Layers – 100 words
Layers Lasagne, remote from Italy, but I don’t mind sometimes I soak pasta so it scissors for neater layers, sometimes I forget, then it snaps hidden veg gets blended, then fried with pancetta, or not, if I forgot, if I’m healthy, I drop mopped fat, plop in the bin (septic tanks don’t stomach it well) […]
Dear Younger Self – 100 words
The Bomb – 100 words
The bomb A person is only organs, electricity and water, carried in a bag of skin, stuffed with preferences and love, stories and regrets: a life compressed. Yet, sometimes you think you’re nothing important, one speck of humanity in the brutal desert of history. Who’d even notice …? Know there will be an explosion […]