Wednesday, 28 August 2024

Vignette 2: Twenty-five words.*

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No sooner had he performed the Ritual of the Word than an Imperial Edict expunged the Ritual Word. The Ritual Word was never spoken again.  ...
Friday, 16 August 2024

Vignette 1: Twenty-five words.*

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‘Remember me? It’s been forty-eight years,’ the stranger with the gun greeted him.       The man looked up blankly, without recognition.    ...
Sunday, 11 August 2024

Harvest.

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 Hope lives on air. The empty hay barn, stacked with raw sky. . Photo credit: RH Dengate /  1960's Barn  / CC BY-SA 2.0            See a...
Sunday, 14 July 2024

Frog Regnant London NW3

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The day after the Labour party’s astonishing landslide election victory on July 4th, I discovered to my dismay that the essential tranquilli...
Tuesday, 25 June 2024

Ancient Greece has Elegant Variations for the Beast with Two Backs.

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Since that which Helen did and ended Troy . . .* Apart from drawing on the limitless resources of a first class scholar-brain, poet Robert G...
Sunday, 23 June 2024

The Virtue of Poverty

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 A naked bulb sheds more light                                                                                                              ...
Friday, 24 May 2024

1967. The Operative Word.

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  We met in the park It was one of those nights The small building was more than quaintly ornamental I am a   bird h...