Cheek
The last chocolate saved as a treat. My reward an empty box.
Ring of Brodgar
I knew you’d be late. You’re always late. The shrinks say it’s a power thing. I watched a fly emerge from morning lethargy into a frenetic map reading of the window. In beads of condensation it traced an outline of the Orkneys detailing the ring of Brodgar. Admittedly it missed out one or two of […]
Obsession
Obsession That must be him. In the distance across the fields, the scurrying figure of a man clutching a bulging plastic bag. Heard about him for some time, but this is my first sighting. The Anti-Litter League: I pinned its red enamel badge to the lapel of my school blazer. It’s true when they say […]
Unspent Sestina
‘Like unspent francs, deutchmarks and drachmas’ Sleeping Keys, Jean Sprackland Do you remember what it was like back then when our years were unspent, a rainbow of currencies: French francs, Swiss francs, the jingle of deutchmarks, escudos, lire, Spanish pesetas and, last but not least, Greek drachmas? Do you remember the drachmas? These ancient coins […]
That’s all I’ve got to say about the dog poo truck
That’s all I’ve got say about the dog poo truck to her at the Council whose walls remain intact whose bricks won’t let in snow now that a capstone’s been knocked off and gate pier sliced in two. It’s not as though I’ve even got a dog. To be fair, there’ve been fewer pokings of […]
Green Man
Green man I am bound with creepers to the trunk of a dead tree, red squirrels are attending me. They bathe my brow with honeydew bear my breast to the morning sun. A man dressed in green appears from the trunk of a nearby elm with long tendrils for hands a face carved out of […]
Day 4
Cheek: What constitutes ‘taking liberties’ ? It depends on our age, our culture, our gender, etc. Here’s a well-known poem by Carol Ann Duffy that uses role reversal: www.noomrevlis.tumblr.com/post/4212996478/pygmalions-bride-by-carol-ann-duffy What gets in your face?