Green veins reach out from a central artery supplying the nutrients of photosynthesis. The leaf a miniature repetition of the tree; a trunk and branches. Falling in autumn onto the ground, golds and browns dot silver asphalt, and collect in gutters, get swept along by autumn rains and gather in corners then start to rot, [...]

Lexicon, language- what’s your lingo? English, Francais, Espanol, Hebrew, Greek, Yiddish, it’s the bridge of communication between us, between our minds. Misunderstandings might be derived from a different use of the same word or meaning to you and I. We don’t want a war over it do we? Communication opens a door , Ouvre’s Le [...]

A wafer of metal between my fingers , a thin sliver, hot and cold at the same time. found in the fan of other needles in a round container that makes no noise as I rattle it from side to side. I twist the selector and a lock door opens for the selected puncturing device [...]

Walls a bit grubby, some stencilled graffiti, sombody’s name, sombody’s tag, sombody’s written ” for a good time call dave” 04637749645i9 on the rear of a cubicle door. These roadside stops are pretty desperate affairs aren’t they? A break in the monotony of the miles. Desperate for a piss , the sort of desperation that [...]

Old Eify – Eddy Eifel, was that his name? Imagine imagining that thing – how does it fit inside your head? – so many spikey pointy bits, it would poke right through the roof of your head as if it were a cloud bank. It’s aspirational, inspirational, reaching right up there. In it’s day – [...]

I’ve been nervous working up to my turn, switching my stare between the current boy or girl on the roasting tray and the endless blue sky outside. The temp is in the mid 30′s and there’s no air conditioning so it’s a bit of a stinker. The combined body fug of 30 twelve year olds [...]

Just a finger in the sky, a Pakistani flag, the crooked little finger of ‘mini me’. It looks set for a ride, that smile turned sideways, another wheel across the heavens knowing it will get fatter and fatter. Many nights riding home from Prouties place, through the dim streets one would appear. Sort of made [...]

Having never met one I can only talk about what I’ve seen in movies or docos…. the first thing I think of is a bone though the nose- must be painful that. I think of the pain of a needle prick multiplied by 50, or maybe it’s like ear-ring piercing- not that I’ve done it [...]

After the diner we hit the fun park – Vienna’s early spring air was frostily talking to my skin and making it rise with heckles of pimply geese. The rifle range was nearby so I thought what the heck – see if I can win her a furry toy or something. The pricing structure was [...]

The bottle is a heavyweight, thick glass like those prescription glasses some people have with those convex Insect eyes. A couple of handles either side and inside a medium brown treacle. The last pancake is on the fry, I study the surface until the required consistency of bubbles have formed and then lift the pan [...]