Bleach and eyeliner
It took me a long time to find a way to look. Bleach and eyeliner, velvet and leather, black and silver. Boots and lipstick, a diamond in...
Join me on the bridge.
The problem is we are islands. The silence is hostile. Even the smoke signals get lost. It takes someone else to suggest a bridge. One...
Throwing Cheese at the Space Birds
Mummy, imagine if there was a tree as big as twenty-eight million thousand school buses, and it went up as high as the moon? Would you...
City Walking
I have only a finite number of steps for city walking. Glamour, squalor, edification and dereliction crowd me like the filthy pigeons. It...
Muir of Dinnet Endurance Ride
Steam off a hot horse and a drying road. Heavy rain that dies away like a round of applause, leaving the air singing to a beat of...
Where the Wild Things Are
I know he will fear the terrible creatures, their teeth and claws. He is building the little boat that will take him there, and there is...
General Election 2017
I am so angry that ignorance and self-interest hold power. our Westminster half-government may get into bed with hateful homophobes....
Mrs Cargill
She asks me which branch of the Rural I belong to. I’m just the singer, I say. We share stories. Her husband died nineteen years ago....
Silence
The wind is booming in the chimney. The clock ticks. The house sighs and creaks. Silence is so precious to me. It’s a luxury, and...
Your problems are not mine – for my Airor Angels
The first time I heard it I recoiled. I thought it meant distance, but it doesn’t. It means just because I have hurts, I can still listen...