Autobiography
Darkness and Despair
“Well, there’s always dissolution of the adoption.” I sucked in my breath and closed my eyes. Exhaling quickly, I vigorously shook my head no. No. He...
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Drowning in the half light
Black shadows cross the living room floor Like evening crows, and rest upon the splayed book Resting at the centre of the oak farm house dining table...
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Journeys
So, I wouldn’t bring you back, even if I could, to somewhere you wouldn’t want to be
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I Don't Know Where I'm Going
I don't know where I'm going. I put on that I'm navigating by the stars, or beacons or album reviews. Branches pointing one way and Leaves falling in...
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Emptiness
I remember when the egg yolk sun ran down the sky. I remember the blue confusion of you. I remember a tent and crying baby in the wind. I remember...
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Carried Away
Will they appear next year, these same constellations of faces coupling buds in the same places, or will things drift, like the leaves from the...
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Musical Fountains
Lakeside Fountains that sway and bend dance and jump gaily to the music in every Christmas colour of light reflected on the water. The air festive...
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Marginalia
...succumbing to another painful bout of writers' block...
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Confusions Candide
For most of my life a convinced rationalist and atheist, I've with confidence learned of certain things, and had certain experiences which leave me...
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Phantasmagoric
“You will have an interesting night,” laughed Aunt Pam, my husband's uncle's wife. “we are putting you in the haunted room.” We had gone to visit...
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