A hard one – is it a friend of anger? Would you need to feel the full blooded pounding hot rage of anger first and then move into contempt later? A tide, a bad apple you’ve bitten into unwittingly, because surely some event has happened where somebody has taken you for a ride. Like someone [...]

Katey had chickens – last time we were there anyway, they were all happily pecking around outside their coop, the coop protected by looping lines of chicken wire – protecting them from foxes or any other wild sort of animal and keeping them in their place.  Inside their castle they stared out through the dull [...]

Folding glass doors reveal flashes of red in a hangar of dimness until the alarm fires off. Then they scurry like ants moving about donning yellow patched jackets and uniforms lit up like lighthouses. The portrait doors begin swinging upwards and red flashing warning lights spin through echoes and reverberations of light. Deisel fumes fill [...]

It should be green but with the drought and all it’s mostly thirsty brown strips of ground anxious for whatever drip of moisture they can lick up. The ball may be resting on a small crevasse on the fairway where bulbous headed crickets scurry and whistle their backlegs to each other.  As you don’t have [...]

The itsy bitsy humpty dumpty little lamb does not rhyme, but those nursery tales do. Itsy and bitsy, humpty and dumpty, Little Jack Hormer sitting in the Corner. These characters meant something to someone at sometime.  When we were kids though it was just something simple to latch hold of and parade out.  Did I [...]

The hill slopes down to the bottom of the botanical where a white rectangle will soon come to life. The Tartan rug has a miscellany of delicacies spread all over, from musty tasting humus and pita breads, to legs and breasts of red roosters finest chicken. The rug is also adorned with the flutes of [...]

There’s so many words laid flat and bound in the holy book that the pages are like tissue paper, turning to the next page of neatly ordered words in parallel columns his words are illuminated in red, “blessed are the meek for they shall inherit the earth” etc etc. I hear the words in my [...]

So, it was as if I was standing at the front door watching a line of possessions move past me a on a conveyor belt to the moving truck. I was surprised the well muscled men did not beep every time they passed beneath the door jam or that they were not emptying stuff into [...]

Cutting paper, cutting cloth, snipping their way across a page or a dress pattern; a pair of scissors but why a pair? Is it the resemblance to a pair of Marylin Monroe or or Betty Grable legs walking across the page in shining beauty, in silvered abstraction? With those big Milliners scissors in my hand [...]

The order of service is presented as each person comes in, flowery writing announcing his name and the songs to be sung. The air is heavy with flowery perfume, daliahs and chrysanthemums and favorites from the garden. At the front of the small non religious chapel lies the coffin in shining polished wood, with a [...]