Nether Hambleton

only its name preserving its shape in a ashen cobweb of sound, wistful and delicious as if heard whispered on a marsh wind.

To Suburbia

Garden toys, algaed; ponds putrid with dank leaves; door slams echoing for want of company, and a world home to the busiest, sullenest most double- yoked nothingness I have ever known.

Wade the Assassin from Persephine

Wade chews through street scum to find some entertainment.
Cherry

The Thing about Dubai

Before shopping malls, and seven-star hotels...

Without Guests

And the foolish dervish on the road said "Without guests, all houses would be graves" Well thank you dear, You built me a grave

Jennifer Stein

Jennifer Stein was a girlfriend of mine, She was one of the girls at my school, She was smart and wore glasses enjoying her classes, I was scruffy and acted the fool.

On Brussels Sprouts and Other Erotica

Concerning the Brussels Sprouts of our fevered erotic imaginings and longings, it is not hard – although it soon will be – to see why such sexually-provocative brassicas have such a firm grip on o

Perch

Sharp orange needle floats pierces ripples anticipation clinging like the prickly feet of bluebottle flies. The old lady bows her neck bones creak and drip matted leaves
Cherry

A Lesson From Wordsworth

I am implored to tell I am spellbound By the way Wordsworth wrote his verse And then appealed to our better nature To forgive his errant words.
Cherry

Rocket Science it was Not

Sometimes Sunday lunch is more than just Sunday lunch.

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