Bluejay
Birds now, birds wondering if the solid earth will hold them I dreamt I was falling last night, and woke so quickly it was as though … Continue reading Bluejay
Birds now, birds wondering if the solid earth will hold them I dreamt I was falling last night, and woke so quickly it was as though … Continue reading Bluejay
Firstly: pine needles and little fibres, they peel away under my fingers and I can toss the hedgehog hordes of cones aside. Three inches: … Continue reading Digging
The only way that the time is made up for is no issue. Who wet it up or out, as if to say Heroes who only … Continue reading Damage
I found out you were dying 70 hours ago, and boarded a plane 30 hours ago. I spend 2 hours in Tokyo airport, where they don’t … Continue reading 100 Hours
This is a Revolutionary Deceit, as though what you thought was rain was sand falling from the faces of a brick wall Here knights jousted – … Continue reading A Revolutionary Deceit
Into an arc the path is thrust, needle strewn with nature’s lust and springing forth through trudging shoe as squirrel’s chitter ‘neath the blue and verdant … Continue reading 500m from L4010
Stepping out of the car in the little gravel car-park is a relief – the smell of warm dust has become overpowering, and the mountains … Continue reading A High Lake
She stepped in front of the train and that was that, the commotion roused me from my place at the kitchen table (did I tell you … Continue reading Rail
The way my heart broke when the little boy walked to his classroom by himself for the first time, was the way a tree feels as … Continue reading Growing Away
This is not a travel blog. Well not in the conventional sense. I’m always awestruck by those people who seem to be gaily skipping around the world, taking razor sharp images on their smart phones of sunsets, gothic cathedrals and … Continue reading Dachstein
I shouldn’t be at all surprised that my father died from lung cancer. Nearly 1 in 3 Austrians is a smoker, and it has the highest rate of smoking of any OECD nation. On average each adult smokes nearly 2000 cigarettes per year. Continue reading The Ashtray of Europe
Citröen 2CV The car is a jolly cerulean blue, with a folding canvas roof. It’s a 2CV Citröen, the gear shift pattern is upside down, so you push the plastic ball forwards to engage reverse, and backwards to get … Continue reading Sauerkraut and Citröens
She will walk beneath pines gasping within winter footfalls mark a metronome count that will bring this world into snow rhythms and catch the limestone gaze … Continue reading Karst Cinquain
Right out loud I have to go And maybe it’s just me I don’t know He is a great guy I’m not sure what that means … Continue reading Shudder
Into you The smell of cardboard and damp carpet and that little space in the shed where it is quiet and still. Stay there long enough … Continue reading Forest Stream