A short excerpt from the free verse collection North Side Love Riot.

Free the Bonhill One. Justice for the Wabbit.

Four iced buns she buys; comes here every week.

" 'Tis better to have loved and lost Than never to....(Alfred Lord Tennyson, In Memoriam A.H.H.)

laid one over the other like lovers the lines of the letter the kiss in the ether this is not you and this is not me I write it I write it and practice until it is perfect

“Softly softly catchee monkey,” Charlie said, reeling in his catch a little way.

This story is only vaguely about fishing, so please don't be put off!