I’d add, ‘I see you’. Suddenly you talk to me for days because you want something. You try to ‘make a connection’? You’ve known me for years but you choose now? You think being ‘nice’ now after years of closing your eyes to all the damage that’s been done around you will work? I see […]
Month: May 2025
Absolute bliss
Mayday. So, always on the side of the workers, I set up the range. It’s chill bordering on cold. Quiet too. The young man is shooting 70m today. Alone, the park to himself. Except for me, of course. Keeping an eye on the time. And the sheep. An average first day back at school, he […]
Vision from Gaza
I met her On her road to Damascus So I thought Sun shone on the grit sand Glint owning shards of light Spreading them like a warm disease of the mind She wore her hair in unfashionable ringlets Screwtapes missing That was not all Something else was Not quite right She was pretty Hard though […]
The metaphorical library of the mind
Rāhui (Lockdown) Day (I need to check, I’ve lost count. Checked it’s Day 38 (40): a few good days, and a few crappy ones. It feels already like today will be one of the latter and the black dog is definitely sniffing at the door; it may already be in the room. As quite often […]