Aortal Bleeding Perhaps our Creator lacks a mind and therefore had no plan for how yours and mine would work. In which case our lives and history are just a continuous accident like a river nosing downhill chancing on points of give. But it’s hard not to decipher a certain deliberation verging on cruelty in our Creator’s gift to us… continue reading
Going to Work
The leaves are sodden they’ll take
months to become useful again.
I bagged them today
in a world so warm
I used my fingers to rake
the grass clear of their wet colours.
I imagine them now as I write
with the wind getting up
and the fox stirring for his scavenge through the dark :
there will be… continue reading
Truth tells, twice over
Air Threat The space outside grows too dangerous to tolerate too frightening to explore. It has been poisoned. There was a time when danger threatened only across deep water but now no longer. All the systems, the traceries, the capillaries are fracturing right here on the doorstep a degeneration working its way… continue reading