Fear of the dark
You, startled shudder, worms, and worriesfrom ash, from soil, you creep with greasy hairto trade my trust in winter’s flurries Lost to moon rage and your eyesight blurry,from milky shadows […]
You, startled shudder, worms, and worriesfrom ash, from soil, you creep with greasy hairto trade my trust in winter’s flurries Lost to moon rage and your eyesight blurry,from milky shadows […]
Roads go ever ever on,Over rock and under tree,By caves where never sun has shone,By streams that never find the sea;From J.R.R. Tolien ,Bilbo My space has never beena place, […]
We should have been here together, at the sea, but you choose betrayal.You had grown absent, always glancing at your phone, ceasing to tell me anything. Silent, always too tired. […]
0.1 O, dragon-sun, the fear-ful father, a thawer of snow,melt-master, icicle-trickster,in March you blind me awakefrom the famines of frost. 0.2 O, moon-son, spiller of silver,master of shadows, silentand cold, […]
The technique of infamy is to start two lies at once and get people arguing heatedly over which is the truth.Ezra Pound After being firmly grippedby the paws of a […]
Writing about living in two places (and times)
Poems & Stories from The Author Stew
practising for a whole life
haikai poetry matters
Running in the slow lane
The view from here ... Or here!
“Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving.” — Albert Einstein
chronicling my quarter life crisis