Walujapi carved a snakelike track Along a cliff-face Planted an impression of her buttocks When she sat This was her camp This was the beginning The beginning that never ended (not yet anyway ~ big bang) The dream of me Rests That dream of you Lives Mists residing in rock crevices Trees (that oxbow lake, […]
Month: June 2025
Vision from Gaza
I met her On her road to Damascus Or 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 […]
Akróstichis #6: Hypnerotomachia Akróstichis #6:Poliphili (My Dream of Poliphilus)
Each, reaching out, both Out there, beyond what our cultures find endurable (is that a word?) Under the guise of the norm Just you and I (it seems, others too, like her and maybe her) Out, way out, and it’s way too late to Out of their mouths, but there is talk and there is […]
Rosemary ~ That’s for Remembrance
Rosemary ~ That’s for Remembrance A reflection on Shakespeare’s old hometown … The harshest European winter for over one hundred years and there I was in a short-sleeved blouse in Warwickshire. Stratford to be totally accurate and staying at the Greensleeves Guest House just over the bridge to the north of the town. In the […]
Chromosomes?
In 1890, the X and Y chromosomes were discovered. It was found that the men who were tested had 46 chromosomes, including an X and a Y, while women who were tested also had 46 chromosomes, including 2 X chromosomes. So obviously the conclusion was that the Y chromosome defined masculinity. A reasonable conclusion. Fast […]
Washing of Hands
Water boiling Under canvas Little Malaya (Pissing down) With minor surgery Planned Some clumsy grunt Through a windscreen Glass To be removed Cuts Sutured I wash my hands in the prescribed manner In the prescribed manner I wash my hands I must avoid spreading infections I must cleanse my hands before and after examining patients […]
Self-harm or Self-care?
As I have already indicated, I’m not very good at self-care, but over the years I have proved to be exceedingly good at self-harm, whether emotional, psychological, spiritual, or physical. It might sound a tad silly, but one of the challenges when it comes to my engaging in productive self-care is that I’ve never been […]
‘Murica, the Fourth Reich
It’s impossible to know what’s going on in America at the best of times, but what I do know is that, right now, it ain’t at all good for transgender people. Or for the disabled, black people, women, refugees – anyone Trump can ‘other’ as being a DEI hire. Somehow, trannies have managed to become […]
Four score years …
Mostly, it’s fun, but sometimes it’s not. Most of the things that are not fun relate to health issues which seem to occur because everything wears out eventually. A design fault maybe? I want to talk to the manager!
Superannuation, and the illusory ‘back pocket’
Among the raft of serious issues – and there have been plenty of them – created by the coalition government that have affected me directly, superannuation is close to the top. Why is this so? Because the income I receive from superannuation – my entitlement to which, to quote the Prime Minister, I am ‘entitled’ […]
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