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Empire State (Part Five) - The House in the Woods

Wicca celebrations can be based on the cycles of both the moon and the Sun. The former are known as Esbats and associated with the Goddess. Black...

then we kissed

then we kissed I sat holding hands with a girl fire raged outside, fury despair and death but wrapped in love I sat holding hands with a girl.

The Seven Ages of Alcoholism – A Letter To My Addiction

(With profound apologies to W. Shakespeare) You always liked Shakespeare. So, as you like it. All the world’s a glass and all the men and women...
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Empire State (Part Four): The Initiate

Modern day Wiccans eschew the notion of left and right hand paths – left associated with malevolence, right linked with good intentions. Not everyone...

A wave crashes

Step On
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Rumbled Block Paving

The cat lies dreaming 'mongst the moss on a driveway leeching petrichor tendrils to tingle a rust-pimple on the aged exhaust pipe of the exhausted...
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Alex Harvey Paid the Ferryman (in 1982)

He paid his final dues, the journeyman, waiting for the Zeebrugge ferry the day before his forty-seventh birthday. Looking at the grey North Sea...

BETSY, THE MARE WHO CAME HOME

In these times of remembrance when we honour the dead of both world wars and the animals who perished with them, here is the story of Betsy, the mare...

An Historical Rendezvous

Beside a gathering of clouds – a finger of escaping light disappears into the twilight leading my imagination on a magic journey- it is a time for...
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Sun, air and water

Drama on the riverbank