Pendulum Even when it’s quiet I can hear the tock of a non-existent clock that prods me from rest with a bony-fingered ‘get up, there’s work to be done’. It’s king clock, a regal tock beating future’s ruthless march: the sneering crump of boot on road – by the left, tick tock! A chronographic […]
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) […]
