Autobiography

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A Chicken That Shares Our Values

I knew something was wrong when I spent ages staring at poultry in Waitrose . I kept rereading the advert: 'a chicken that shares our values,' and...
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Home

“I think I’ve found a house,” he messaged me from Bath. “I took some pictures on my phone. See what you think.” In a translation office in Paris,...
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Sleeping at the Ends of Days

**** To fall asleep by daylight and wake after dusk feels ominous ****
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Otago (From Your Dust, New Life Starts)

You are that rising shimmer seen during last summer’s wonderful, hazy days grown in dancing moonlight and blessed on reedy, tranquil lakes by pure...

Stately Manor of my Youth: A Blipping Shadow

The driveway neatly swept of leaves, volunteer roots culled, stray rocks plucked, now a vestige of wind-blown chaff, a hedgerow cultivating weeds, a...

They Fuck You Up

Even now I sometimes write them off. My Dad. My Mum. A quandary. However much I try to rage. It doesn’t seem to work. Yeah, they fuck you up. Your...

They Fuck You Up

Even now I sometimes write them off. My Dad. My Mum. A quandary. However much I try to rage. It doesn’t seem to work. Yeah, they fuck you up. Your...
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Said and Done

When all is said and done Let there be light, enough That we might Imagine the distance We have failed to unravel When all is said and done Let there...
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365 memories

Memory 118 th Van, Turkey. Wednesday, December, 27th 1987 …………….. 11:15 am At a time when death quietly is ambling to you, even if it is invisible,...

He looked just like my mother's baby brother

He deteriorated fast. The last time I saw him before we went to the hospital, he was crossing the street. It was winter, I remember because he was...