Fear itself
Fear the sirens calling you at 3 AMfear a crowded subway stationfear the darkness of the copse beyond your gardenfear both truth and liesfear the roar of diesel enginesfear the […]
Fear the sirens calling you at 3 AMfear a crowded subway stationfear the darkness of the copse beyond your gardenfear both truth and liesfear the roar of diesel enginesfear the […]
We season springwith silence,cease to speak;and sit to sip our tea;we listen to the eagershift of wingsfrom a wren awakenedto the scent of last year’sleaves consumedby greedy earthworms;we sit and […]
Grey,we’re grey, betrayedaway slips daysaway our life’s astraywe walkdismayed in claywhile weighedwith words unsaid, Again it’s grey,it’s grey todayaway awaywe’re waylaidwe stray delayedsurveyedunpaidwe’re playeddelayed we waitwe wail a whilewe pray […]
When ash has fallenon corpses, a stillness settlesin the shadow of mayhem,a numbness has grownfrom mourning the fallen,from the guilt of forgetting,the faces of neighborsand how laughter infectseven the mind […]
In my dreams, I am in Kyiv.Between the air raid sirens, silence is unbearable, fluffy, like cotton wool. Sometimes the thunder of far-away mortar explosions and I imagine waiting, waiting […]
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