by Dave | Apr 2, 2023 | Uncategorized |
I will not soon forget our visit to Reynisfjara beach. It is a memory that has gripped itself tightly to me these past many years. It was on that day that I lost him. The black sand beach, as it is known to most, lay on the South coastline of Iceland just outside of...
by Dave | Jan 3, 2023 | Uncategorized |
Deep, deep, deep down in my heart, An unexplainable pain, an unreachable part. Seems like a cage with a keyless lock, Which then forced me to be as hard as a rock. ‘Cause what would you expect? What would I do? When I let myself have fun, what did you do? Yes,...
by Dave | Jan 3, 2023 | Uncategorized |
Although the sea is pulled by lunar reins, Its servile ebbs conceal the subtle strides Of a fateful force, once nature’s patience wanes, That tests its tether with unruly tides. Where frozen hills are stoked by metal fumes, It brings a rhythmic ruse of...
by Dave | Jan 3, 2023 | Uncategorized |
Above the entrance to the short-stay carpark opposite the departures lounge at Edinburgh airport there’s an illuminated orange billboard, thirty feet high and twenty feet wide. It features an upturned bottle of Johnnie Walker Black Label, giving the uneasy sense that...
by Dave | Jan 3, 2023 | Uncategorized |
I open the car boot and pick up the cushion, its green velvet sheen so recently indented by the weight of my father. I run my hand over the material to smooth out the colour, dark to light. It smells of car freshener with just a hint of bodily decay. I’d removed it...
