Sweetgale
In sweetgale fumes, there is a weight of backpacks filled. There’s anticipated mountain views, at the beginning of a treck. There is a miry softness, in my gait, a sound […]
In sweetgale fumes, there is a weight of backpacks filled. There’s anticipated mountain views, at the beginning of a treck. There is a miry softness, in my gait, a sound […]
The smell of tapas on la Rambla takes me back a thousand weeks I feel your skin as dewdrops on my glass Your hair as raven wings Your hand had […]
Summer sachets of lavender longing in linen a smell of southern Provence my dreams are still warm in its seasoning The sunset of tangerine glistening butterflies dancing — we tasted […]
we’re hardened by this cordite smell as perfumes of the roses wilt from burials a constant knell we’re hardened by this cordite smell when driving on this road to hell […]
Kitao wrote when the peonies bloomed, it seemed as though there were no flowers around them First the first line makes me think of loss, the peonies are not blooming […]
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