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the Golden years

In memory of May, who died christmas 2003

Howard Dean

The mysterious wife of Howard Dean, is this another ploy?

Dear Patience

if you could... you wood, if you know, blow...

Around the world

getting away from it all

What am I?

What am I? I am an old woman, reminiscing on my departed youth. I'm a tired housewife worrying where my husband is tonight. I'm a Rabbi, pondering...

Gheist

Perhaps an entry for this 'Ghosts' contest?
Cherry

A bit of fun

Ghosts Competition Entry (1022 words)

Winter Zhounds

The coldness of New England, the hard-workers and their realism, their faces lined with deep thoughts.

Colour poems

I hate this poem, but I almost feel an obligation to it, because it was the lucky one that got published. I still hate it.

Carol

Whale, beached out of the soothing rough of the waves, do you weep? For I grow under your thick skin, like a lily-pod. There is no time for you to be...

Our

Without rain, our garden seems to sag, the middle of an older bed. Innocence, a child with a purple ball thrown over the hedge, knocks at the back...

Boxed

My summer would fit Crushed up small in a box, Insignificant in its coffin, If it had blisters and chlorine, From swimming in my shoes One day, after...

Scents of Summer

I asked, quite simply, That I should have that chance. You were unexpected. Betrayal, almost, in your smile, And I remembered Those tangerine...

S

i write my 's's backwards sometimes, just to feel the irregularity funny: maybe laughing at myself in silence.

Phone Home

I will call you today From a phonebox somewhere Revelling in the anonymity. I have a quarter in my pocket But it will work Despite being foreign...

Politically Scandalous

This story contains Drugs, sexual content, or strong language. It is not for minors. Protect yourself From my flagrant badness- It may be infectious...

Backstage, Theatre Royal, York

sometimes i feel i sink underneath the swell of theatre - moments in the dark, and on yellow-lit stairs, glass doors.

A measure of love

You measure love, Dripping, like time, in crystal droplets By messages left, pin marks in the door. 'I'm so popular,' you told me, Not believing it...

Yellow Buddlea

It's an exercise we did in English. You get given a flower and then you have to Put Your Flower Down On Paper.

For the train

I am waiting At the station For a train which Hasn't come. It is late (Too late, can't turn Back, forwards, for me) And my mother has Strict words...

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