On the edge of winter, once again lonely —
We bonded over walking, wide and faras the wild, wild wind tore me gentlyI, startled shuddered, worms, and worries;a hand raised skywards, the cairn adorned the summitand mirrored me from […]
We bonded over walking, wide and faras the wild, wild wind tore me gentlyI, startled shuddered, worms, and worries;a hand raised skywards, the cairn adorned the summitand mirrored me from […]
Wrapped in the dusk, through depths of the snowMy poem is a wolverine searching for preyIt follows scents of blood feeding its growth.Swiftly fluid, poem and shadow mutually grey, My […]
Cuddled by mangrovethe dark bayoukeep its secrets ofmoonshine-infidelity,corpses of rejected beausand an eel thicker thana fisherman’s waist. Spanish moss cocoonsthe witch’s shackby the malevolent lagoonand it’s saidthat few have leftto […]
Inhaled persuasive patternsof delightful dreamsto fill the fault lines in a failing worldwe believed the best. pretended and forgot,only to wake up (too late) to realise:this decline could not be […]
Her birthday cakelay wreckedravagedand consumed This year againI had not forgotten,and we had sharedwithout words battling bakery,treated by vanilla creamstrawberriesand chocolate ganache “Not too bad”, she saidlicking the spoon,“you have […]
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