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....