by Dave | Jan 2, 2024 | Uncategorized |
I must choose. It will focus me. Today, the choosing will be in the style of Grace Kelly. I run a hand along the sleeves hanging in my walk-in closet and take out the orange, princess-line maternity coat. A colour analyst recently told me that I was a ‘summer’ and...
by Dave | Oct 2, 2023 | Uncategorized |
The tree is still there, The person is not, Only echoes and ghosts Maybes and almosts. I can hike the way we did, Even talk about the same things But I’d only be talking to myself. The words are still there, The sentences are not, Revised and rearranged Turned...
by Dave | Oct 2, 2023 | Uncategorized |
The idea of killing my wife appeared in a daydream, though the daydream wasn’t my own — it belonged to Martha Clitheroe. A mouse of a woman, Martha, sat on the opposite side of the therapy circle, though it was impossible to make eye contact. Hunched shoulders,...
by Dave | Oct 2, 2023 | Uncategorized |
It loomed above me, a gothic fantasy. The conical roofs perched on the turrets like witches’ hats. Light faintly seeped through the fake arrow slits. Disneyworld gone wrong. There were even a couple of ravens croaking against the evening sky. The Scottish chill seeped...
by Dave | Jun 29, 2023 | Uncategorized |
A small pot of gold ink to fill up the pen to just use on pages nine through to ten the ivory lace and old Sanskrit face write down all the dreams of my favourite place The sound of the scratching in rhythm and tone can curdle the blood and leak into bone but the...
by Dave | Jun 29, 2023 | Uncategorized |
ROBINSON, Janine Mary (nee Stark) Peacefully, on 25th January 2020 at the Western General Hospital, Edinburgh, aged 80 years. Beloved wife of the late Peter, whom she thought she was too good for and cheated on regularly, including with her own brother-in-law, the...
