Tag: Write
“the baron’s declaration“ The celebrated Munchhausen announced to the town council that he had recently returned from a perilous expedition across the vast expanse between the windowsill and the fruit…
Backward Carriage, Early Draft of a Life The train shudders through a corridor of fields, windows flicking past barns, pylons, a rusted ute half‑sunk in grass. I sit face against…
Coming across Wild Geese by Mary Oliver as a young reader was a transformative moment in my life. In the poem, Oliver writes, “You only have to let the soft…
“The Price of Looking“ You could treat me better. That much is true. My friends gather around the evidence, holding up pieces of a trampled heart. They call it…
I came to say hello to my mother, where she rests at Bodega Head by the sea. Seagulls come here to play in the wind. Two are here now, drifting…
It’s rated by many as Yorkshire’s Top Dog It doesn’t have Michelin stars Instead by the side of the A61 Its flag bears the sign of five cars. It’s just…
Artwork: Jessica McCallum © 2000 Although actually written at university and included in my chapbook ‘Return of Rainbows’, this poem was first published in ‘Peace & Freedom’ Magazine, in London,…
“navigating the far dark“ Out past the last buoy of orbit, a vessel steadies itself against vastness of unclaimed distance. No single hand governs its course —only the faint…