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Elastic Limit

Coiled Tight Ready to spring Like a dog with its teeth bared Like a cat with its ears back Like the hovering hawk The shark circling the surfer The...

Font Test

Beware, for I will take him. There will be no fight; he will come willing, though at first wary, as a child to a stranger bearing sweets and a smile...

In The Eyes Of A Child

This is a taster of what's coming up, hopefully you'll all like it and email me if you want me to carry on...

July 1994

this is a brief 'thing' to remind us all how fast things change...

Bloody War

a short beginning for a developing plot. ideas and opinions would be helpful.

The Ice Hotel Experience

Settle back and relax with this chillin but amazing recollection of a chance to stay in one of the most sensational and awe dropping hotels in the world.

Knowing Nothing.

KNOWING NOTHING. sneak tech Slumped in the back of a putrid green people carrier, forehead pressed against the window and walkman set to stun...

CORNER OF DARKNESS

Among a flood of tears, Within a sleepless night. In a corner of darkness, Just missing the light. In a cry of anguish. Within a painful plight. In...

Zs in pizzazz and razzmatazz

You put thrill into the thrilling.

THE FAT KID

Over 10 years after the sleeping giant awoke, I meet him again in the room of a nursing home for the elderly.

Your Girlfriend

Does she have her own friends, own room, own life? Does she dance around to Marvin Gaye? Does she get her toes caught in her knickers? Does she wear...
Cherry

Trans-Pennine

on Yorks/Lancs race relations
Cherry

Seasonal Poem

Did I not come to you in autumn? Did I not wait for non-existent buses As the rain lashed my hair into my eyes? Did I not catch leaves for you? Hold...

Supermarket Fruit

You leave me as you found me. Bruised.
Cherry

Paper Cut

You lie there innocent As my thumb springs red Hurts like hell But not enough to be plastered The kind of wound that needs air to heal

Football Boys

on the intricacies of having a one night stand with a man met at a football match in Burnley, Lancs.

SOD YOU

Sod you, For giving me sod all. Sod you, For making me feel odd. Sod you, For simply sodding off. And sod you, For being such a sod. 30 October 2004

Morning

Our clothes lay where they fell Your jeans nudging against my skirt My jumper sleeves wrapped around your shirt Only my bra lays distant Victim No...

Let Me Be Your Drugs

Let me be your drugs Replace all your addictions with this exquisite one Let it be me in your bloodstream Shining in your eyes Reach for me before...

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