VeraClark
Primary tabs
Pages
My stories
Apricity, the mole catcher and the promise of returning light
We have a storm porch, now. It feels luxurious, a strange Maritime phenomenon in a suburban setting. A glass vault that holds us in it, a space so...
- Read more about Apricity, the mole catcher and the promise of returning light
- 1 comment
- Log in to post comments
- 485 reads
Variable
When the hysterics home in me: it is uncanny, a new sort of normal. He says he loves how my kitty eyes turn lynx cat when I lose it. He makes me feel...
- Read more about Variable
- 5 comments
- Log in to post comments
- 2036 reads
Finding the Give in Bernard Manning
She deduced he was the comic because he was in want of a smile. He also wanted the corner table dead on ten to. He wanted a pitcher of Theakstons and...
- Read more about Finding the Give in Bernard Manning
- 3 comments
- Log in to post comments
- 561 reads
Curiosity is the Only Requirement
There is a resistance in my hips that needs unjamming. I feel it at my work desk and mostly sat on buses. When I lie flat on my back, it starts to...
- Read more about Curiosity is the Only Requirement
- 4 comments
- Log in to post comments
- 731 reads
Oestara
Belton House. He was queueing with his mam on the springy grass verge where the stone steps rise up to the hall. The sort of kid that never stays...
- Read more about Oestara
- 5 comments
- Log in to post comments
- 661 reads
Great characterisation, Jane.
Posted on Thu, 07 May 2026
- Great characterisation, Jane. AI is becoming a therapist as well. We are doomed.
Read full commentPosted in Black Mushroom Soup
I love Boreas the bringer of
Posted on Tue, 02 Dec 2025
I love Boreas the bringer of winter. A really glacial, delicate reflection.
Read full commentPosted in "Winter Constitutional"
Bring back the olden days. A
Posted on Mon, 17 Nov 2025
Bring back the olden days. A sharp, gloom of a piece. Sometimes we need shards to hurt us, to see clearly! Hello Jane.
Read full commentPosted in The World is Closed
Loved this. A circus of wordy
Posted on Mon, 21 Jul 2025
Loved this. A circus of wordy legends. Where is Walrus these days?
Read full commentPosted in Homage
A wild take on fhe sun. You
Posted on Tue, 07 Oct 2025
A wild take on fhe sun. You still do these well, Rhiannon.
Read full commentPosted in Perspective
When sleep is outside of
Posted on Mon, 06 Oct 2025
When sleep is outside of night it brings the surreal with it, like your poem has. That last verse is a beautiful balance, the tempo quietening, as the storm recedes. Beautiful.
Read full commentPosted in The weather and other remedies
I am another of these women
Posted on Sun, 29 Oct 2017
I am another of these women and I hear you. The repetition has a profound effect on the build of abuse and then a destabilising one in its close. Felt very emotional reading this. It feels like looking out on a clean still morning with a blue sky...
Read full commentPosted in i am the woman who
Loss is inexplicable and yet
Posted on Tue, 04 Apr 2017
Loss is inexplicable and yet airyfairy manages to pin down the dislocation and vulnerability of the unspeakable with beauty, compassion and carefully placed humour. It's our Pick of the Day. (and thinking of you)
Read full commentPosted in The List
Sometimes a place gives
Posted on Tue, 31 Jan 2017
Sometimes a place gives fabulous journeys to our internal psyche and your poem did for me, it gave me a clarity that's hard to articulate and that sense of being almost near-to-knowing the self, a temporal sensation that's never linear or pinned...
Read full commentPosted in Auchtertyre
Such a crock that scent and
Posted on Fri, 18 Nov 2016
Such a crock that scent and taste invoke a person (I used to eat things I hated to feel close to somebody!) but there's definitely something in the ceremony of opening their favourite bottle.
Read full commentPosted in I don't really like Hardy's Legacy
Pages