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In despair I ate all our tiger prawns

My sweet, indigestible you...

The Lost Path 3

From out of the great Maze, the Droth Draili come to Centre Valley with a demand. Continuing story about a community surviving at the centre of a giant, mysterious maze

LIFERS Chapter Fifty Two

One of them felt for a pulse, but the grim expression he gave his colleague told Jill it wasn’t good news.

Millionaire

The Conservative minister for Welfare Reform Lord Freud obviously thinks he is well equipped to efficiently and compassionately.
Cherry

The Light Inside

In the morning, light seeps in, piercing and merciless, through threadbare curtains. “Kiddo,” says Martha, “up with ya!”

The Twists of Fate Chapter 1

The Twists of Fate is a story about necessary lies.

PREACQUAINTED SOULS

continuity

Love waits tables

Love waits tables and passes the salt Love is a that preverbal thunderbolt Love leans over a winter’s bowl Of pearl barley, soup Love is the one you, affectionately, Called a nincompoop!

Love on resin setting fire

Oh white Jasmine flower Love on resin setting fire Incense burning in my soul Catching me on fire Oh white Jasmine flower I’m extracting oils Wonderfully, heavenly

My heart is a hanging garden of Babylon

Forgive my Babylon temperate floods… There’s no evil in my sodden roots So forgive my Babylonian Dynasty Oh forgive me in all honesty I can’t help the debris I leave

Coffee Haiku

One of my poetry postcards written and printed while I was the poet in residence at Burns Beach Cafe 2013.

The flower of man

If he could just remember how he once felt in his heart
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The Birth of Cool

First the sky has a blues attack then Nature slips on shades of black. Night draws up like a Cadillac while mellow trees sway forth and back.
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The way to write a best seller.

I sat ready to write a best seller but the words were impotent Not forth coming, the pint glass looked at me half empty And spoke to my pallet for just on more gulp.
Cherry

That Elusive Cure 3

I arrived early and sat in my car for ten minutes trying to calm my nerves. I didn’t really know why I was in such a state. Jimmy had noticed last night and questioned me during the adverts.
Cherry

Dwellers of the New World Chapter Ten ( Pt 4 ) More Sad Farewells

Varden had slept most of the morning in Si's cave, before waking to the smell of fish cooking over an open fire.
Cherry

Little Dancer

An enchanting slip of a thing...
Cherry

Death Sat Down Beside Me

Death sat down beside me. I didn’t invite him. I wasn’t ready. I was in my regular seat on the train thinking of something to write when he boarded.

We have to keep the country going second draft

The reality of my on-going situation hit me hard earlier today.

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