Tuesday, 25 July 2023

Just Before Nine.

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Just before nine, the cell door opened and   a voice warned, ‘It’s time!’                                   His arms were pinioned. Outside ...
Tuesday, 11 July 2023

Strewthisms : A Little Dictionary of English Exclamations and Curses as Religious Euphemisms

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Extraordinarily enough, this year, I realise, marks twenty years since the first submission of my ‘Strewthisms’ proposal to Penguin Referenc...
Sunday, 9 July 2023

A Ready Answer

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‘One night I saw him standing naked at his bedroom window. Between his thighs hung the dark semblance of a hank of knotted rope. Later, I ...
Monday, 12 June 2023

A Discomposed Gnat-Bitten Townie Sulks and Composes an Anti-Haiku in Memory of a Disagreeable Visit to the Atonal English Countryside.

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  babbling of birds the warbling of a brook then a five-barred thing The anti-haiku poet’s expression of a gnat horde composed in a fury of ...
Friday, 14 April 2023

Beware of Pity

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( Ungeduld des Herzens* ) In homage to Stefan Zweig              This blossomed tree grown crookèd on the hill              an onshore wind ...

Legend

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Near lost the tide. We grazed the harbour wall. Sheared bows. Half her good name the Devil tore To goad our fears: ‘ Bounty she is! No mor...
Monday, 29 August 2022

News flash! Eyeless in Emmaus.

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LATEST! There have been conflicting reports from followers of the condemned man, who have informed the public that they are no longer searc...