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Uppingham Methodist Church.   Four foot next to the font  wearing a tall chef’s hat  puffy on top I played ‘The Baker’ in our Nativity envying angels – their wings, their glitter I was no [...]

Tamsin Flower, 18 Jan 2021. For most of us, ‘Hubris’ is a dusty concept kept in a drawer marked ‘Useless Stuff from School.’ Far from being irrelevant to modern times, hubris lives in our [...]

7+ Spelling Hacks – jpeg to grab & downloadable PDF: Downloadable pdfs: 7-spelling-1 7-spelling-prefixes1

Dear Elysia,   One day the Old World got sick. Spasms, coughs jerked into space from each continent – ugly, inconceivable rockets. Every land-mass had something similar but different [...]

2016 was a Bitch   2016 was a bitch you said. I’ll say that…   many heavyweight stars died  and observatories harvested full-moons like fruit slung from low branches.   [...]

Paradise Lovers   Paradise Male bops feathers to bull-frog chirp and monkey-caw this evening the forest feels electric  Female will scale his dance-floor   Paradise male slicked-back, [...]

The Charioteer –  in honour of Captain Tom & the Rider-Waite tarot imagery.   He knows focus  is a game of pretend is a painter’s trick suitable for all eyes   anyone can [...]

The Artist – inspired by the story of Hassan Akkad   The Artist sits cross-legged lone in his bedroom fortress avoiding ankles of uncles jibes from aunties’ moustaches.   [...]

Lives of F, Synchronised Swimming, Ed 1. (poem 1) It is an old-fashioned August that melts. The world still turns predictably, slow and smart, public services go to work. Two well intentioned [...]

Lives of F: Young Adult. Ed 1. (poem 4) 1 Frederick, or Frederick-Danvers-Hill, (as he likes to be called), after Great Great Grandfather – the circus-star turned soot-revolution mogul, [...]