Caroline hadn’t seen the cat for days. Jim said he didn’t want to hear any more about it, even though she’d only mentioned it the…
I plant a graveyard of feathers on my tongue. Watch them sprout into birds without wings. I could pluck up these flightless fowl, snuff out…
Mist rises from the sodden earth and I wonder from what creatures it rises, think of the bodies that lie submerged within its belly, the…
The Dee spills out, all salty silt and sandbanks. The sudden tilt is disconcerting; the jib collapses, flapping uselessly, like a fulmar with a broken…
You say a rainbow doesn’t work for you, my extraordinary girl whose birth tag said ‘male.’ ‘How many colours do you need?’ I ask, thinking…
Cut a long piece of paper At my bedside she used read me poems. Poems that grew from a sparkle in her eye and exploded…
‘This is not a day of celebration for the Church.’ Thus spake the priest, as the young couple looked up, and St Bernadette looked down.…
This much I know about dismemberment. It’s an absence, and a presence at the same time – a shadow-ghost, a persistent haunting, and a piercing…
Running the gauntlet, Lynnie bats back the tri-color ginger leaves, whacking her way forward, navy baby birds, chirping black parakeets, here now is an owl.…
My mother used to tell me, bone-clean, mind, as foam swallowed my dirty hands. I’d pinch the skin tight around my knuckles, looking for answers.…