The tide
In response to Peace, a poem by Sarah Teasdale Time is the tide of life! It relentlessly flows to the sea that carries us finally away....
Life
I was lucky to be able to go to university. Very few people from where I grew up carried on to higher education. It wasn’t really an...
Injury
In response to a passage from Romany and Tom, by Ben Watt I've always attributed my frequent bouts of lower back pain to an injury I...
Bird
In response to Hope is the Thing with Feathers, a poem by Emily Dickinson A bird, a winged dinosaur. Not the cleverest of the animals,...
Secret waters
(in response to Birds, a poem by Robinson Jeffers) Quick, sharp and short. Not for long did the mind dwell not for long did he stay or...
Dream
(In response to a passage from The Kiss, by Kathryn Harrison) It's odd that this trigger was pulled so soon after the troubled dream I...