Rapunzel’s Miranda
My knight, I might let you scale my tower but, it’s easy just to let you slip and break your neck. You might be another hand- some man, but I […]
My knight, I might let you scale my tower but, it’s easy just to let you slip and break your neck. You might be another hand- some man, but I […]
Desires kindle fire as ember fingers braille and brand our skin We dagger night with poems flesh on flesh and flesh in flesh — we make firework. Angie gave us […]
Wet and drizzled this November, stillborn-cold, a tightened noose of darkness, throb of migraine, damp depression, a scent of unwashed wool and soggy shoes. November is the weight of death, […]
Alone — a jardiniere without its aspidistra. Abigail sighed. Herbert had not been the best catch in the pond, but he had left her. She should have ended it instead. […]
You may sense my deep drawn sighs as yet a graveyard draught but I just crave your kind attention a candle for my forgotten grave. My father used to shut […]
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