Five Human Nourishments

You know how when you’re hiking and you come over a rise and see below you a lake – as flat as gravity can make it, blue-lit by the sky; edges fringed with summer-leaved trees? And the very waterness of it, its placidity, the surprise: and something in you relaxes in recognition and is thrilled, [...]

The Town Center

Sunday Soapbox: The Town Center

Every town needs a center, a central square, a plaza – just as all old towns used to have, and in many parts of the world still do.

Just as every person needs a center, and every atom has a center. Towns without centers make the inhabitants sort [...]

The Sixties

In 1966, when I was fourteen, I was called in to see the school counsellor, who asked me what i wanted to do when I grew up.

“I want to travel around the world and have lovers,” I said.

Her breath sucked in – her eyes bulged out – and as soon as I was [...]

One of the Books I’m Working On

it’s called The Garment District of the Mind and is a celebration of – clothes! And a return from a near-near-death time…. my rebirth dream was a shopping dream -

here’s a sample -

 

The Blackberry Eau de Toilette

the third one

Today I Killed My Bank Account

 

Today I killed my bank account

It had kept on biting me

Indifferent tellers riding on its camel back

 

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another poem

Sneezelight

 

Next time you have to sneeze, just

Think about the top of your head,

Just

Focus on [...]

Three Poems

Garden Club

 

Outside it’s snowing wetly

A woman sits in a maroon chair

With a stripey calm design in it