Your Heart’s Right There Jo Nestor Every night this week after supper I’ve watched you, a stranger to me, linger in Palazzola’s communal refectory, hesitant…
Sunk Ciaran Cunningham He drifted where the boat had ruptured. Its goat skinned belly burst on the unforgiving rocks. Frank watched young clouds like goose…
The Questions after Rilke and Maggie Smith Partridge Boswell What does ‘reconcile’ mean? he asks me on our drive to school, the way he’s bounced…
In some shining slice of time, not hers, not mine, we will be friends. I’ll enter slowly through the door-less frame at Roquebrune, and we…
INT: OVAL OFFICE – DAY The President sits at the desk. The President looks at her hands. People rush in and out, speaking fast, leaving…
Mum took a summer job on a ferry, serving plates piled with slices of black pudding and greasy triangles of fried tattie scones, to tourists…
Make an appointment with the GP, who examines your scalp and says, Hmm, only a little. At your age, a degree of hair thinning’s to…
tell me my shoes need resoling/ (who doesn’t?). Some crunch in a quiet kind of way/ but others/ spit fierce into traffic or hedgerow/ tiddley-winked.…
Rona’s teacher was talking about Bill Clinton and Monica Lewinsky’s blue dress and the class was alive with giggles as you would expect from a…
My emotional support bear killed my sister tonight. He says I should give him a proper name, but when I suggest Bob, he gets huffy,…