They stood like sentinels in a cage in the kitchen. Various sized bottles holding marriages of sweet, briny, smooth, nutty, fruity, garlic, vegetable, prawn and any other flavour imaginable. Tall and sleek, squat with a dimpled round surface, boxy but...

She is three times her size when we meet. Grown fat and slow with the passage of time. I enter slowly, unsure about this place I called home for nine years, unsure about how she will react to seeing me....

If you get close enough to the shallow ledge of a deep well and look below there is nothing but dark. Nothing but nothing. It is so deep that you do not know if there's water or it's dry. You...

I like you Ask me why Because you make me laugh until I cry Because you’re quiet, calm and shy Because you feel the need to please Because with you I get knobbly knees Because your eyes are distant blue...

A sea of bubbles in my bathtub Expanding like a restless wind Into more shapes A deer A mountain A recessed cavity filled with yesterday’s secret Now revealed Now no more news I part them with my fingers A small...

I searched for you in many places Under the ancient roots of solid trees Hidden soft Between the powdered wings of dragonflies I didn’t find you in the brush of a lover’s kiss Nor in a baby’s needy touch Did...