Playing Away
Elsewhere, the party dances on. His best friend knows the score, what lies ahead: a master class, soft music, while, at home, a figure practices a solo waltz then lifts the phone; his mobile cries It’s time to go! He moves across the rumpled bed then takes his partner one more time, conducts his truth, […]
Day 23.
Oh blimey, sorry folks, busy day. Here it is: Infidelity. It can be all in the mind (or not). Try Tanya Shirley: http://www.poetryarchive.org/poetryarchive/singlePoem.do?poemId=17191 Infidelity, temptation, guilt and all that.
Secret
Secret There’s a secret here somewhere. Hidden away. Buried deep. Everyone feels it but nobody knows what it is. Such a secret prompts theories, we all have our pet one which we enjoy sharing with each other. Wouldn’t it be marvellous to know the real answer? All may be revealed one day. But what if […]
Shades of Flann O’Brien’s ‘Third Policeman’
It is not here, the thing I want; I must have passed it on the way. I go back through carved-out trees, and clean-cut hills, to there where I thought I had begun to find all changed. No signposts on the long white road, only a building rising as it seems with but one side […]