Like Magic
A child waves her wand and bubbles are conjured into the wind, a shimmer of colour chasing colour around a membrane, one molecule thick. This fact is unknown to the smiling child and the fact that the effect of soap on surface tension was first measured by Agnes Pockels who persuaded Lord Raleigh to wave […]
Still with us
Still with us Step between the trees, confined in whispering half-light, overgrown undergrowth untouched for as long as anyone can remember. A step back in time. You can’t help but feel it ever so slightly: that primeval fear of dark places. Folk tales to Tolkien to Rolling. Wizards, hobgoblins, things that go bump in the […]
DAY 16.
So sorry for delay… here it is: Classic fairy tales can be messed with as in this Roald Dahl poem: http://www.poetryarchive.org/poetryarchive/singlePoem.do?poemId=7428 Bring a fairy tale or myth up to date.