Let me keep my ol’ fedora
I might not be the prophet John and you are not Salome, but could you still let free that seventh veil and spend the night with me. I’ll offer you […]
I might not be the prophet John and you are not Salome, but could you still let free that seventh veil and spend the night with me. I’ll offer you […]
You left when leaves were dirty rags, when foliage shrunk to tattered shrouds dangling on the barren boughs. You left when days were dusk and foggy fingers slipped around my […]
I write — in company of dreams, and squirrels, with an online dictionary in memories of woods. I write — imagining the shape of waves and footpaths marked by cairns […]
The creature from the black water tries in vain to hide her webbed feet in second hand Manilo Bhlanik slippers. Otherwise she dresses plain in old sealskin, kelp and ghostnets. […]
One day, Mrs Mabel McFinn draped her shoulders in shadows and left her husband Fergus McFinn to deal with his cobwebs and leftover stew. Mrs Mabel McFinn fled with 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