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Fire
I have set him on fire. Poured petrol over him as he lay in bed. Held the plastic container upside down, shaking out every last drop. I struck a...
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Moon Space [2]
The moon slows down the earths rotation trying to stop it from spinning out of control but the earth likes being out of control, it wants to spin,...
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Moon Space [1]
The moon was once part of the earth so they say, now it’s lifeless, separate from its former heartbeat. Does the earth realise that when it let the...
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Awkward Salt
I see her coming, hurried pink in the face and jumper. Her torso leans slightly forwards, shoulders furling in. She opens the door, it’s smaller than...
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Eat [2]
It was Sunday when we stepped off the ferry in Tarbert on the Isle of Lewis. That meant, the ferryman said, there was no food to be had. I’d thought...
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Gorgeous poem - love that
Posted on Tue, 06 Apr 2021
Gorgeous poem - love that last line! And visually its lovely, like the tide coming in and out.
Read full commentPosted in to pick up time
Beautiful from start to
Posted on Sat, 19 Aug 2017
Beautiful from start to finish- that first line is a beautiful analogy.
Read full commentPosted in Un Dia en Las Palmas
So touching, poignant - has
Posted on Sun, 19 Mar 2017
So touching, poignant - has me welling up. It can be hard to put our emotions into words and you have done so here with such grace.
Read full commentPosted in Mum's the word
This is a lovely piece both
Posted on Sun, 27 Nov 2016
This is a lovely piece both poignant and heart warming. You have s lovely way of writing and I love the phrase - grief is an embodied experience- yes I believe that to be true :) x
Read full commentPosted in Mirror, Mirror
Stunning lc...can hear all
Posted on Sun, 10 Jul 2016
Stunning lc...can hear all those gulls ( that caw caw- they always sound like they are laughing in s mocking fashion!) crashing waves, fantastic placing of words..such an emotive piece x
Read full commentPosted in Attrition
I like this reversal of
Posted on Wed, 11 Nov 2015
I like this reversal of 'blame', really makes you think. Paragraph four in particular struck a cord. (not sure if you meant witch to be be which?)
Read full commentPosted in If You Get Cancer
I think you've managed to
Posted on Wed, 04 Nov 2015
I think you've managed to achieve tension and suspense with the character attempting escape. This line is great; 'The white coat makes sures she heels to his side like an animal.'
Paragraph four- could you perhaps show the dialogue? And...
Read full commentPosted in Nothing Concrete
Very believable voice, can
Posted on Sun, 11 Oct 2015
Very believable voice, can imagine that sort of character. I like the unanswered questions - the contrast between the 'nosy' character and the 'silent' Mrs Jenkins. Most poignant.
Read full commentPosted in It's Only Me, Mrs. Jenkins
You can feel the sadness from
Posted on Sat, 03 Oct 2015
You can feel the sadness from both sides of this EB...The last stanza in particular is heartbreaking, the distance forced by work creating distance in the relationship; hanging onto hopes. Thought provoking!
Read full commentPosted in Clocking In
Those overheard conversations
Posted on Sun, 20 Sep 2015
Those overheard conversations, snippets of small talk wonderfully recrafted. Some made me smile right from the start- at least you brought a brolly. Lovely structure too- a narrative formed through a commentary. Most inventive :)
Read full commentPosted in Why Does it Always Rain at Funerals? (Poetry Monthly)
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