Industrious Swim

A woman slips into masculine waters, swims from here to there, swims a long way – away. She wrecks the water with desire, busy with achievement along the way, muscles beg stroke by stroke the anthem of ache recorded in neglect . . . No time to luxuriate in...

Poetic Intercourse

ONE Don’t be casual with a poem. If you want to know a poem, commit and move in. TWO Don’t tell a poem what it says. Listen to what the poem is saying. THREE If the poet and the poem are both speaking, listen first to the poem, then to the poet. FOUR The...

Previously

Episodes in a television drama series  begin with the word: ‘PREVIOUSLY’                      a brief remembrance of things bygone, before the characters go charging into what will become the next episode’s past requiring a new – ‘PREVIOUSLY’...

Freedom Party

What we want is the freedom to incarcerate ourselves in our own opinionated penitentiary.