ONYX FROM PEJAPeć to rhyme with deck of cards, stacked against a hand shaking, stacked against a trembling, laid beside the mountain stone: ruled like...
CHEMIN DES DUNESI park the car off Route de Gravelines – six minutes on Sat Nav from the Port – and head, on foot, along Chemin des Dunes: half road,...
MIGHTIER THANThings to be kept: My head My hands My books My pens My own bed Things to be whole: Hearts This to be sliced: Bread These to be held: A...
ARSENIC LACED LUNCHWhen you point your finger at The Rabbit with his finger on the trigger, (metaphorically speaking) (though is that any better?) watch out...
FOR ZELDAEsmé comes down the stairs with angry tears streaking unwanted understanding down her Year 5 face. This is death like she’s never known...
WORLD SERVICE/BOOK DAYThe scattered kids of rural Kent hop from foot to foot down lanes: hanging heads over bridges to throw Pooh sticks into babbling brooks....
WAR CRYThis girl, this English nurse, flings her flaming hair over the bath and sings. We laugh – we, who were born to be Dovedale mothers and...