Category: Visual Verse
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4 March: March Visual Verse
Silk of a Thistle There’s no getting closerto it than breathing in itsfragmented scents. Food. It’s the weight of nostalgia.It’s the tangles, and voices,scars, and echoes of a feast. Life is thistle and silk, andthose grapes spread out likea galaxy, whilst the hungry fast out of necessity. Lobster on a plate. A crackedexoskeleton, and we…
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5 Feb: Trigger Warning – Panic Attacks
They Said It Was A Panic Attack Ate salmon that night.Put me off water for a long time after. Sitting there in my comfy chair, and there’s this tightness like I can’t breathe, so I pull myself upright, inhale, but panic is having its way with me. It’s like a voice telling youthree tales at…
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10 January: for VV’s January Anthology
That Speckled Grey There was a man. And there was a horse that was the colour of pebbles, assuming that pebbles are speckled grey, and this man had a horse, or at least that’s what he thought, but facts, being facts, always aren’t because this horse had a man and this horse juggled its man…
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22 December: Visual Verse
I’m delighted to have one of my poems published at Visual Verse this month. It’s just a click away: The Colour of Plastic.
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4 December: for V.V.
The Colour of Plastic Plastic is the colourof my neighbour’s left eye.Yellow is the colourof his liver. And if this were a story,it would twistlike Rubik’s cube. All the characters wouldhave their angles,and I’d give them names,like Rhombus and Scalene. But this isn’t a story,and my neighbour’s liveris apt to be the death of him,…
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7 November: Lost in Translation
Lost in Translation (reading time: 1 minute) A letter arrived.Every house on the street had one.Through the letter slot, it fellto the floor. Waiting for us. So we all gathered over a tablelayed with tea cups and cakes,and we brought our letterswith us to compare. Some thought they were written ina language of blood and…
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26 August: Visual Verse Anthology
I am delighted and honoured to be published this month in Visual Verse’s August anthology. At the beginning of each month, this publication offers an image for writers to respond to … write and submit. They publish 100 pieces each month. Submission guidelines are on their site. Pop over to Visual Verse, and subscribe to…
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2 August: VV Anthology
Ten Minutes on the Central Line (445 words, 2min:53sec read) I’m always amused when someone offers me their seat. On a good day, it’s easy to forget that I’m old. Why would I do that, I said to my doctor when he asked, Don’t you ever look in the mirror? I decline the offer of…
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3 June: Against a Wall
Against a Wall Two women lean their backsinto the arch of a glass sky,spirits laid bare and free,a painting on a wall. Their bodies are bloomingsoft as silk sun, and they’refilled with irony and life,adorning imperfections. For them, ordinary is weak,and fork-clean. Friendsin-sync, neuro ad neuro.Like a final quit-cigarette. Women always lean backon a voice…
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4 May: The Allotment
Allotment If I wrote a book, I’d call it Allotment, andthere’d be a young woman who tendedher compost bin as if nothing else mattered.She’d wear a green frayed edge jumper. And there’d be a young man who dreamedof marrying her. They’d have lots of children,grow their own veggies, always organic,and keep hens that would eat…
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