this morning in the rush of lost hats and packed swimmers and adjusted goggles and tangled hair i forgot to eat my twice cooked breakfast (twice cooked because even months later i still think the salt is the sugar - being in the old sugar jar- and a teaspoon plus of salt on one's porridge … Continue reading breakfast elongated
I watch the night creep along the slender pink bough of next door’s gum illuminated by that ha’penny moon and dripping with bronze questions thicker than Pooh Bear’s honey. I lie here, thoughts traveling ‘round and around like Piglet’s footsteps in the snow, small but firm I guess, and as trotters would, imprinting deeply the … Continue reading A Honey Night
imagine if we swapped an eye for an eye mine blue, yours brown and we saw the world through one of each would it be two tunnels ending in different stories irreconcilable? two streams down two mountains cavorting and somersaulting subsiding in two different lakes one blue, one brown and we being half of each … Continue reading Eye for an Eye
It's Valentine's Day and we splashed red around oh yes like butchers carving up the day and we felt it in our hearts watching loved ones hurt to bleaching and as you do when grey deepens past twilight we turned to food in the crowded kitchen scrambling eggs around like free-range yellow clouds but heavy … Continue reading All Kinds of Red
