You said to leave you alone Close the door behind me While salt and vinegar crisps flaked on your chest Video game addict You needed a ride every day for every year you couldn’t drive yourself Until you learnt to...

I went to an all-girls school. We had little awareness of the budding magic of our young bodies, we did not have boyfriends, a party was a sleepover with amateur manicures and gossip. We did not have any internet, our...

Your children are not your children. They are the sons and daughters of Life’s longing for itself. They come through you but not from you, And though they are with you yet they belong not to you. You are the...

I did not tell her For I did not know how I once was pretty But I don’t feel that now Daddy told me that girls like me Could be cuter with a smaller nose, so you see... I changed...